Impact of the ownership structure on the diversification strategy

This study examines the ownership characteristics that influence the decision to diversify. The Logit model was used to show that ownership structure influences the probability of diversification. Empirical tests show that the presence of the first large shareholder increases the probability of diversification during the financial crisis period. This behavior is observed for the coalition of second and third shareholders only for periods during and after the crisis. The average level of probability for firms to be diversified is between 20% and 50%. Furthermore, results show that industrial firms and more willing to be diversified than firms in the financial sector.

PENGARUH MULTIPLE LARGE SHAREHOLDER STRUCTURE, LEVERAGE, DAN INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL TERHADAP KINERJA PERUSAHAAN JASA NON KEUANGAN YANG TERDAFTAR DI BURSA EFEK INDONESIA

Abstract— This research is quantitative and examined the effect of multiple large shareholder structure, leverage, and intellectual capital on company performance using the ROE. The data is retrieved from financial statements of service companies, exclude the finance subsector, listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange for the period 2014-2018. There are 36 companies and 171 data for the sample using the purposive sampling method. The method of analysis used is multiple linear regression. The result is that multiple large shareholder structure, leverage, and intellectual capital have significant effects simultaneously on non-finance company performance. Partially, multiple large shareholder structure, leverage, and intellectual capital have positive and significant effects on company performance. This research proves that company performance can be enhanced by maximizing multiple large shareholder structure roles as supervisors to decrease internal conflicts and represent the minority shareholders, keeping the leverage ratio to avoid default risk, and utilizing intellectual capital to advance the value-added of the company. Keywords: Multiple Large Shareholder Structure; Leverage; Intellectual Capital; Company Performance

Equity pledge of major shareholders, quality of information disclosure and synchronization of stock price

The synchronization of stock price is an important index to measure the information of stock price. Compared with the countries with mature capital market, the synchronization of stock price in China is on the high side, and the fluctuation of stock price often presents the phenomenon of “rising and falling together”. This paper studies the impact of pledge of major shareholders’ equity on the synchronization of stock price, and further explores the role of information disclosure quality. Based on the data of China’s A-share listed companies in 2013-2019, the empirical study shows that: there is a large shareholder equity pledge in enterprises, and the synchronization of stock price is higher, and with the increase of the proportion of large shareholder equity pledge, the impact is more significant; the quality of information disclosure plays a significant negative role in the relationship between the synchronization of large shareholder equity pledge and stock price, easing the impact of large shareholder equity pledge the impact on stock price synchronization.