Investigating the relationship between inventory stickiness and firm performance

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D of accounting, faculty of management, university of tehran

2 Ph.D of accounting, faculty of management, university of Tehran

10.22034/iaas.2022.338505.1259

Abstract

Objective: In today's competitive world, an inventory management approach that, in addition to agility, is in line with demand and does not impose heavy costs on organizations, is essential. Inventory sticky management approach, which, contrary to the common approach in the new world, leads to inventory stickiness in periods of declining revenue, has costs for organizations that are expected to undermine performance organizations and impose additional costs on them. In this research, this important issue, which is a new topic in the domestic literature, has been examined.

Method: To test the hypothesis of this research, 7,597 observations (year-firm) were collected and examined from the pooled data, which according to the definition of variables, only 3,975 observations between 2005 to 2020 remained and were used in the hypothesis test.

Results: The results show that on average, Iranian companies have followed the approach of sticky inventory management in periods of declining revenues, which on average has led to costs for companies and a negative effect on company performance.

Conclusion: The analysis of the hypothesis of this research in the whole market and different industries shows that the costs of sticky inventory management outweigh the benefits for companies and has a negative effect on the performance of companies in most industries.

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Accounting and Auditing Studies

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 23 October 2022

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