Governance and Performance Implications of Diversification Strategies: Evidence from Large U.S. Firms

Manohar Singh, Ike Mathur and Kimberly C. Gleason

The Financial Review, 2004, vol. 39, issue 4, 489-526

Abstract: Recent research focuses on explaining the diversification discount. However, there is little direct evidence regarding the relation among ownership structure, corporate governance, and corporate diversification. The results in this paper suggest that agency issues do not account for firms adopting a particular diversification strategy. Also, the performance consequences of the shift in the diversification strategy and the subsequent changes in institutional and block ownership structures are not related to agency issues. In fact, investors seem not to avoid diversified firms per se. We suggest that observed board and ownership differences between diversified and focused firms are due to their being at different stages of corporate evolution.

Date: 2004
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