Corporate Governance, Product Market Competition and Firm Performance: Evidence from India

Ekta Selarka ()
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Ekta Selarka: Madras School of Economics, Behind Government Data Center

A chapter in Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets, 2014, pp 55-77 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract On one hand product market competition acts as an ultimate solution to align interests of managers and shareholders, and on the other hand, competition alone may not be sufficient because it may not prevent managers from expropriating the competitive return after the capital is sunk. These hypotheses motivate us to investigate the interaction between corporate governance and product market competition in India where predominance of owner-managers might cause corporate governance reforms to have a slow impact. Using a sample of 1,330 listed firms at the end of 2005 we attempt to capture various attributes of corporate governance by constructing an index of corporate governance based on board structure, audit quality and investor information disclosure. The index is then used along with traditional measures of competition to analyze the question of whether corporate governance and competition are complements or substitutes. In general the empirical analysis shows the weak substitution effects of product market competition which further suggests that relying on product market competition to improve corporate governance of firms may not be appropriate in the Indian setting and therefore, direct corporate governance reforms seem to be necessary and are likely to be effective.

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Firm Performance; Family Firm; Product Market Competition; Corporate Governance Mechanism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-44955-0_3

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