Zusammenfassung
Emerging markets like India have poorly functioning institutions,
leading to severe agency and information problems. Business groups
in these markets have the potential both to offer benefits to member
firms, and to destroy value. We analyze the performance of affiliates
of diversified Indian business groups relative to unaffiliated firms.
We find that accounting and stock market measures of firm performance
initially decline with group diversification and subsequently increase
once group diversification exceeds a certain level. Unlike U.S. conglomerates'
lines of business, and similar to the affiliates of U.S. LBO associations,
affiliates of the most diversified business groups outperform unaffiliated
firms.
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