Business portfolio reconfiguration and firm performance: The contingency role of organizational capabilities, slack and ownership
Journal
Journal of Management and Organization
Journal Volume
31
Journal Issue
3
Start Page
1215
End Page
1242
ISSN
1833-3672
1839-3527
Date Issued
2025
Author(s)
Abstract
The purpose of this study aims to explore the relationships between business portfolio reconfiguration and firm performance in developing countries as well as the moderating roles played by organizational slack, capabilities and ownership structure. By using the perspectives of dynamic capabilities, resources-based view and social network, this study proposes that there is a U-shaped relationship between business portfolio reconfiguration and firm performance. Furthermore, while R&D capability, marketing capability and foreign ownership are expected to positively moderate this U-shaped relationship, organizational slack, state and domestic ownership may potentially make this U-shaped relationship less pronounced. We draw our observations from Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges in China from 2008 to 2017, and obtain 26,151 firm-year observations, which are consisted of 3,508 publicly traded companies. The results generally support our hypotheses, and some theoretical and practical implications are extracted from this study.
Subjects
ownership structure
reconfiguration
social network theory
Dynamic capability
resource-based view
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Type
journal article