Diversification strategy, efficiency, and firm performance : Insight from emerging market

We investigate further the inconsistencies of the diversification-performance link by introducing efficiency as moderating factor. A data of 319 firms was used to conduct a panel data analysis excluding the financial sector industries and the results show three important findings. First, industrial...

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Main Authors: Gyan, Alex Kwaku, Rayenda Khresna, Brahmana, Abdul Karim, Bakri
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2017
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description We investigate further the inconsistencies of the diversification-performance link by introducing efficiency as moderating factor. A data of 319 firms was used to conduct a panel data analysis excluding the financial sector industries and the results show three important findings. First, industrial diversification shows a significant contribution in performance improvement while international diversification shows no effect on performance. Yet, international-conglomerate shows a significant negative relationship with performance. Meanwhile, the efficiency results are contrary to our conjecture. We find that efficiency is a factor to enhance performance, but it is not the moderating variable on the diversification-performance link. This implies that the efficiency of the firm has no connection with the link between diversification and performance. © 2017 Elsevier B.V.
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spelling unimas-175432022-06-21T01:07:18Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17543/ Diversification strategy, efficiency, and firm performance : Insight from emerging market Gyan, Alex Kwaku Rayenda Khresna, Brahmana Abdul Karim, Bakri HD28 Management. Industrial Management We investigate further the inconsistencies of the diversification-performance link by introducing efficiency as moderating factor. A data of 319 firms was used to conduct a panel data analysis excluding the financial sector industries and the results show three important findings. First, industrial diversification shows a significant contribution in performance improvement while international diversification shows no effect on performance. Yet, international-conglomerate shows a significant negative relationship with performance. Meanwhile, the efficiency results are contrary to our conjecture. We find that efficiency is a factor to enhance performance, but it is not the moderating variable on the diversification-performance link. This implies that the efficiency of the firm has no connection with the link between diversification and performance. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. Elsevier Ltd 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17543/1/Diversification%20Strategy.pdf Gyan, Alex Kwaku and Rayenda Khresna, Brahmana and Abdul Karim, Bakri (2017) Diversification strategy, efficiency, and firm performance : Insight from emerging market. Research in International Business and Finance. ISSN 0275-5319 (In Press) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0275531916303099 DOI: 10.1016/j.ribaf.2017.07.045
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Gyan, Alex Kwaku
Rayenda Khresna, Brahmana
Abdul Karim, Bakri
Diversification strategy, efficiency, and firm performance : Insight from emerging market
title Diversification strategy, efficiency, and firm performance : Insight from emerging market
title_full Diversification strategy, efficiency, and firm performance : Insight from emerging market
title_fullStr Diversification strategy, efficiency, and firm performance : Insight from emerging market
title_full_unstemmed Diversification strategy, efficiency, and firm performance : Insight from emerging market
title_short Diversification strategy, efficiency, and firm performance : Insight from emerging market
title_sort diversification strategy, efficiency, and firm performance : insight from emerging market
topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
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