A note on corporate strategy and capital structure

Peter Taylor and Julian Lowe

Strategic Management Journal, 1995, vol. 16, issue 5, 411-414

Abstract: The relationships between capital structure and corporate strategy in previous U.S. and Australian empirical studies, which use different definitions of capital structure, and hence have different functional relationships, are considered. A model using the U.S. specification with the Australian data is estimated, for which previous conclusions relating to profit are confirmed. The relationship between strategy and capital structure is thus shown to be less than robust. The conclusion that debt/equity ratios of highly diversified firms are more strongly affected by firm‐level variables is supported. An explanation that the capital market rewards focused firms because they are easier to understand and price is offered.

Date: 1995
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