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- Title
Exploring R&D Influences on Financial Performance for Business Sustainability Considering Dual Profitability Objectives.
- Authors
Kao-Yi Shen; Min-Ren Yan; Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng
- Abstract
The importance of research and development (R&D) for business sustainability have gained increasing interests, especially in the high-tech sector. However, the efforts of R&D might cause complex and mixed impacts on the financial results considering the associated expenses. Thus, this study aims to examine how R&D efforts may influence business to improve its financial performance considering the dual objectives: the gross and the net profitability. This research integrates a rough-set-based soft computing technique and multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods to explore this complex and yet valuable issue. A group of public listed companies from Taiwan, all in the semiconductor sector, is analyzed as a case study. More than 30 variables are considered, and the adopted soft computing technique retrieves 14 core attributes--for the dual profitability objectives--to form the evaluation model. The importance of R&D for pursuing superior financial prospects is confirmed, and the empirical case demonstrates how to guide an individual company to plan for improvements to achieve its long-term sustainability by this hybrid approach.
- Subjects
RESEARCH &; development; SUSTAINABLE development
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2017, Vol 9, Issue 11, p1964
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su9111964