Profitability and working capital management: a meta-study in macroeconomic and institutional conditions

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Jacek Jaworski, Leszek Czerwonka
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Working capital management (WCM) concerns decisions on the levels and turnover of the inventories, receivables, cash and current liabilities of a company. Consequently, WCM affects the profitability of an enterprise. This paper aims to determine the relationship between profitability and WCM, characterised by components of the company’s operating cycle. The research is based on meta-analysis and meta-regression methods that allow for the combination and analysis of the outcomes of individual empirical studies using statistical methods. Our final research sample consists of 43 scientific papers from 2003 to 2018. These studies covered almost 62,000 enterprises in 35 countries from 1992 to 2017. Our results indicate that there is a common, negative relationship between profitability and the cash conversion cycle (CCC). This relationship is conspicuous in various countries and in different economic contexts. A negative, statistically significant relationship was also detected between profitability and average collection period (ACP), the accounts payable period (APP) and inventory turnover cycle (ITC) as well. We also identified moderators of the diagnosed dependencies on the grounds of macroeconomic and institutional factors. The richer the economy, the weaker a negative impact of CCC on profitability. The higher the protection of creditors and debtors, the weaker the negative relationship between profitability and ITC. The opposite is applicable to inflation and ACP and APP, unemployment and CCC, ACP and APP, the availability of credit and APP and the degree of capital market development and CCC and ACP. The aforementioned macroeconomic and institutional factors cause the negative relationship between particular components of the operating cycle and profitability to deepen even further. Our research contributes to the existing knowledge by confirming that the negative relationship between profitability and all components of the operating cycle is dominant in the global economy. It also indicates that there are macroeconomic and institutional moderators of the strength and direction of these relationships.

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盈利能力和营运资本管理:宏观经济和制度条件下的元研究
营运资金管理(WCM)涉及公司存货、应收账款、现金和流动负债水平和周转的决策。因此,WCM 会影响企业的盈利能力。本文旨在确定盈利能力与 WCM 之间的关系,WCM 以公司运营周期的组成部分为特征。研究基于元分析和元回归方法,这些方法允许使用统计方法对单个实证研究的结果进行组合和分析。我们最终的研究样本由 2003 年至 2018 年的 43 篇科学论文组成。这些研究涵盖了从 1992 年到 2017 年 35 个国家的近 62000 家企业。我们的研究结果表明,盈利能力与现金转换周期(CCC)之间普遍存在负相关关系。这种关系在不同国家和不同经济背景下都很明显。我们还发现,盈利能力与平均收款周期(ACP)、应付账款周期(APP)和存货周转周期(ITC)之间也存在统计意义上的显著负相关关系。我们还根据宏观经济和制度因素确定了诊断依赖性的调节因素。经济越富裕,CCC 对盈利能力的负面影响就越弱。对债权人和债务人的保护程度越高,盈利能力与 ITC 之间的负面关系就越弱。通货膨胀与 ACP 和 APP、失业率与 CCC、ACP 和 APP、信贷可获得性与 APP 以及资本市场发展程度与 CCC 和 ACP 的关系则相反。上述宏观经济和制度因素导致运营周期特定组成部分与盈利能力之间的负相关关系进一步加深。我们的研究证实,在全球经济中,盈利能力与运营周期所有组成部分之间的负相关关系占主导地位,从而为现有知识做出了贡献。研究还表明,这些关系的强度和方向受宏观经济和制度因素的调节。
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Decision
Decision MANAGEMENT-
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期刊介绍: The aim of the Journal, Decision, is to publish qualitative, quantitative, survey-based, simulation-based research articles at the national and sub-national levels. While there is no stated regional focus of the journal, we are more interested in examining if and how individuals, firms and governments in emerging economies may make decisions differently. Published for the management scholars, business executives and managers, the Journal aims to advance the management research by publishing empirically and theoretically grounded articles in management decision making process. The Editors aim to provide an efficient and high-quality review process to the authors. The Journal accepts submissions in several formats such as original research papers, case studies, review articles and book reviews (book reviews are only by invitation). The Journal welcomes research-based, original and insightful articles on organizational, individual, socio-economic-political, environmental decision making with relevance to theory and practice of business. It also focusses on the managerial decision-making challenges in private, public, private-public partnership and non-profit organizations. The Journal also encourages case studies that provide a rich description of the business or societal contexts in managerial decision-making process including areas – but not limited to – conflict over natural resources, product innovation and copyright laws, legislative or policy change, socio-technical embedding of financial markets, particularly in developing economy, an ethnographic understanding of relations at a workplace, or social network in marketing management, etc. Research topics covered in the Journal include (but not limited to): Finance and Accounting Organizational Theory and Behavior Decision Science Public Policy-Economic Insights Operation Management Innovation and Entrepreneurship Information Technology and Systems Management Optimization and Modelling Supply Chain Management Data Analytics Marketing Management Human Resource Management
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