비대칭적 원가행태에 대한 연구동향

The main purpose of this paper is to review the growing body of research on cost stickiness and also, to discuss research opportunities. While the traditional cost behavior model describes a mechanistic relation between activity and costs, recent studies on cost behavior find that costs are sticky: i.e., costs decrease less with activity decreases than they increase in response to the activity increases by an equivalent amount. This alternative view recognizes the primitives of cost behavior-resource adjustment costs and managerial decisions. By following Anderson et al.(2003), researchers investigate the determinants, consequences and different aspects of the cost stickiness. This review provides the following evidence in Korean research on the cost stickiness. First, total number of studies on asymmetric cost behavior in Korea is 55 from 2003 to 2014. Second, in terms of research model, 46 studies examined issues related to determinants the most. Third, in terms of research topic, Anderson et al.(2003)’s model was employed the most. Fourth, in terms of dependent variables of determinant studies, SG&A expenses, employment expenses, labor costs were used the most. Fifth, in terms of independent variables of determinant studies, agency, financial conditions, demand expectation were used the most. Sixth, in terms of variables of consequence studies, earnings forecast, individual firm’s stickiness index was used the most.