Krishna Palepu

ThinkersManagement scholar

Works

In Organizational Structures

Known for

Business groups and institutional voids in emerging markets, with Tarun Khanna.

Ideas

Affiliates of diversified groups. With Khanna, found in India that firm performance first falls and then rises with group diversification, and that affiliates of the most diversified groups outperform unaffiliated firms. Caveat: A statistical study of many firms in one country; the abstract does not give the sample period or size.

Group benefits that atrophy. With Khanna, found in Chile that the benefits of group affiliation not tied to diversification atrophied over time and that the diversification threshold for a net benefit rose. Caveat: A study of firms in one country over nine years of liberalization, read in its abstract only.

In this section, “read” means read by the Organizational Structures series: where a line says a work, or part of one, was not read, the series did not read it.

Organizational Structures that draw on Krishna Palepu (1)

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