Business groups in developing capital markets: Towards a complementarity perspective

Date

2015

Authors

Chittoor, Raveendra
Kale, Prashant
Puranam, Phanish

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Volume Title

Publisher

Strategic Management Journal

Abstract

Prior research suggests that Business Groups (BGs) in developing economies have emerged as alternatives to poorly developed economic institutions in these countries. In this paper, we argue that this does not necessarily imply they are substitutes. Specifically, we consider the case of capital markets, a key economic institution: while the absence of well developed capital markets may indeed have stimulated the emergence of business groups, we propose that BG affiliation and the scrutiny that maturing capital markets impose on firms that participate actively in them nevertheless can play a complementary role in influencing a firm’s performance. We find support for our predictions in a novel longitudinal data set of Indian firms that contain both listed and unlisted, BG affiliated as well as unaffiliated firms.

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Keywords

business groups, capital market efficiency, organizational hybrids, India

Citation

Chittoor, R., Kale, P. & Puranam, P. (2015). Business groups in developing capital markets: Towards a complementarity perspective, Strategic Management Journal, 36(9), 1277-1296. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2287.