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“Do conglomerates in emerging economies suffer a diversification discount? An application on South African listed companies”
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/26357 “Do conglomerates in emerging economies suffer a diversification discount? An application on South African listed companies” Raina, Rajinder ichelp@gibs.co.za Subbramoney, Praven UCTD Adaptive Resource-based view Institutional Conglomerate Diversification Learning Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. Corporate strategy forms the platform to consider fundamental strategic alternatives for an organisation. The recent financial crisis has been a sobering reality check for most companies. Diversification or specialisation are two of the more common configurations that corporate strategy theory would propose to grow and sustain financial performance, particularly during though times. Research conducted in developed markets since the 1950’s have tried to establish if diversification creates or destroys value. Conglomerates, defined as unrelated diversification, are often believed to translate into diversification discounts in developed economies. The application of this theory has been questioned with respect to emerging markets and the empirical results in these markets have been mixed. A conceptual approach using different approaches, institutional, resourcebased, adaptive and learning theories was used to try and explain the deviation in results attained by conglomerates within emerging markets and those in developed markets. Specific arguments and propositions were developed based on these different theoretical lenses for South Africa. These propositions were tested by statistical analysis of organisations listed on the Industrial sector of the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE). The organisations were categorised into conglomerates or focused groups. The two groups were compared in terms of financial measures from the period 2001 to 2009 to determine which group performed better. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-07T04:50:34Z 2011-08-11 2013-09-07T04:50:34Z 2011-04-12 2010 2011-07-16 Dissertation Subbramoney, P 2010, “Do conglomerates in emerging economies suffer a diversification discount? An application on South African listed companies”, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26357 > F11/531/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26357 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07162011-152630/ © 2010 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretori application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Adaptive Resource-based view Institutional Conglomerate Diversification Learning “Do conglomerates in emerging economies suffer a diversification discount? An application on South African listed companies” |
| title | “Do conglomerates in emerging economies suffer a diversification discount? An application on South African listed companies” |
| title_full | “Do conglomerates in emerging economies suffer a diversification discount? An application on South African listed companies” |
| title_fullStr | “Do conglomerates in emerging economies suffer a diversification discount? An application on South African listed companies” |
| title_full_unstemmed | “Do conglomerates in emerging economies suffer a diversification discount? An application on South African listed companies” |
| title_short | “Do conglomerates in emerging economies suffer a diversification discount? An application on South African listed companies” |
| title_sort | do conglomerates in emerging economies suffer a diversification discount an application on south african listed companies |
| topic | UCTD Adaptive Resource-based view Institutional Conglomerate Diversification Learning |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26357 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07162011-152630/ |