NDLI: Efficiency or bounded rationality? Drivers of firm diversification strategies in Vietnam

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Author	Tran, Hien Thu Santarelli, Enrico Zanitto, Enrico
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Considering the case of diversified firms within a developing/transition country such as Vietnam, this paper investigates diversification relatedness while taking into account both firm- and industry-specific components. The high volatility of the dynamics of diversification observed in Vietnam suggests the hypothesis that firms decide to enter into new industries following a trial and error process, initiated by boundedly rational herding behaviors, i.e., firms follow the most commonly observed business combinations. Using a survivor-based (SB) measure of relatedness, we test the hypothesis of boundedly rational behavior. We find that both the probability of exit and the different performance measures (Return on sales and Total factor productivity) are not or are negatively correlated with SB-related diversification. This is in contrast to what has been observed in developed countries. However, using the SIC distance approach, we obtain the expected positive relationship between performance and relatedness in diversified firms. The conflicting result between these two relatedness indices therefore suggests there has been a trend in follow-up among inexperienced firms that imitate the direction and intensity of the diversification of dominating players within the industry (herd behavior). However, diversified firms gain experience over time and choose more efficient business combinations in subsequent entries. When we use the classical SIC-based approach, we find that greater diversification raises profitability, but only to an optimum relatedness point, beyond which the positive effect fades away. To control for the endogeneity of diversification relatedness and the serial correlation in error terms, we adopt an instrumental-variable two-stage least-squares estimation approach (IV-2SLS) with GMM treatment.
Starting Page	983
Ending Page	1010
Page Count	28
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09369937
Journal	Journal of Evolutionary Economics
Volume Number	25
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	14321386
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2015-05-09
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Firm diversification Firm performance Bounded rationality Transition economy Institutional/Evolutionary Economics Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods Microeconomics Economic Growth R & D/Technology Policy Entrepreneurship
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics and Econometrics Business, Management and Accounting

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