INVESTIGATION OF MACROECONOMICS FACTORS AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate Macroeconomic factors and Financial Performance in Global Technology Industries, with emphasis on Technology (Gadget, Software, etc) and using financial aspects during 2016 and 2017. This study is crucial since Technology Industries has entered industries 4.0 that concern in change of usefulness in the future and also have impact for macroeconomic. Therefore, this study would like to analysis 5 companies in Technology Industries from USA, South Korea, China. This study uses quantitative research method which uses secondary data. Data collection is taken from Annual Data company, World Bank etc. This study uses panel data methodology general least square (GLS) by STATA M64 This analysis will show how Financial Performance can impact the Macroeconomic in Technology industries since we entered the Technology era. The findings of this research are Financial Performance not significant impact toward Macroeconomic. This finding not supports the reality since Macroeconomic still have higher impact with Banking industries, even though this study recommends further study to find the reason why some of the variable result have positive impact.