Purpose: Does product diversification constrain or boost international expansion of business groups from emerging markets? What is the role of international orientation and group resources in moderating this relationship? Given the dominance of business groups as an organizational form in...

We investigate the effect of product diversity and geographic diversity on the performance of SMEs. We propose an inverted U shaped relationship between product (geographic) diversification (PD/GD) and the performance of SMEs. We also propose that PD and GD positively interact with each other to...

We identify and examine the efficacy of organizational mechanisms through which diversified firms are effectively managed without loss of control. Building on the resource based view of business groups, we argue that business groups in emerging markets use these mechanisms more often and derive...

Studying how boards contribute to firm performance and examining implementation costs associated with diversification strategy are domains of growing interest to strategy scholars. We integrate these incipient literatures to examine the role of Peer Independent Executive Directors’ (PIED)...