Organic growth and shareholder value: A case study of the insurance
Organic growth and shareholder value: A case study of the insurance
This paper examines organic growth and its impact on shareholder value creation. At a conceptual level, organic and external growth are readily defined; yet, at a practical level, decomposing revenue growth into its constituent elements presents methodological challenges. We develop a method to decompose revenue growth into organic growth, external growth, exchange rate effects, and under- or outperformance. Using extensive data from three insurance companies, AXA, Generali and ING, we analyzed the period from 1995 to 2005. Exchange rate effects were of minor importance, unless companies entered markets at inopportune times. Primarily, the findings indicate that only organic revenue growth enhanced shareholder value. Therefore, managers should focus on marketing as a key driver of organic growth to create value
insurance industry, growth strategy, organic growth, revenue growth decomposition
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Kling, Gerhard
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Ghobadian, Abby
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O’Regan, Nicholas
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December 2009
Kling, Gerhard
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Ghobadian, Abby
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O’Regan, Nicholas
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Kling, Gerhard, Ghobadian, Abby and O’Regan, Nicholas
(2009)
Organic growth and shareholder value: A case study of the insurance.
International Journal of Research in Marketing, 26 (4), .
(doi:10.1016/j.ijresmar.2009.08.002).
Abstract
This paper examines organic growth and its impact on shareholder value creation. At a conceptual level, organic and external growth are readily defined; yet, at a practical level, decomposing revenue growth into its constituent elements presents methodological challenges. We develop a method to decompose revenue growth into organic growth, external growth, exchange rate effects, and under- or outperformance. Using extensive data from three insurance companies, AXA, Generali and ING, we analyzed the period from 1995 to 2005. Exchange rate effects were of minor importance, unless companies entered markets at inopportune times. Primarily, the findings indicate that only organic revenue growth enhanced shareholder value. Therefore, managers should focus on marketing as a key driver of organic growth to create value
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Published date: December 2009
Keywords:
insurance industry, growth strategy, organic growth, revenue growth decomposition
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Centre for Digital, Interactive & Data Driven Marketing, Management
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Local EPrints ID: 165717
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/165717
ISSN: 0167-8116
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