Volume 15, No. 1, June 2016

 

Business Group’s Diversification Strategy and Sustainability
Fang-Yi Lo
Department of International Trade, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
 
Ming-Kai Hsu
Department of International Trade, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
 
Abstract

This paper explores how the resource endowments of business groups affect diversification strategy, and how different degrees of diversification influence business group financial performance and sustainability. The sample of this study is the top 300 business groups in Taiwan according to China Credit Information Service. Regression results show that tangible, intangible, and human resource endowments all positively affect business group diversification strategy. We also find an inverted-U relationship between the degree of diversification and the financial performance. Thus, diversification strategy enhances business group sustainability.

Key words: business groups; diversification strategy; financial performance; sustainability
JEL classification: L25; L21

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