Yupana Wiwattanakantang. Corporate restructuring of non-financial listed firms belonging to Thailand's top 30 business groups in response to the East Asian economic crisis. (). มหาวิทยาลัยธุรกิจบัณฑิตย์. ศูนย์สนเทศและหอสมุด. : , 2005.
Corporate restructuring of non-financial listed firms belonging to Thailand's top 30 business groups in response to the East Asian economic crisis
Abstract:
This study examines corporate restructuring taken by non-financial listed firms affiliated with Thailands top 30 business groups in response to the East Asian financial crisis to test whether controlling shareholders of business group firms intend to prop up the firms in order to tunnel in the future. To do so, we investigate whether business group firms are more likely to undertake restructuring actions in response to the crisis than non-group firms. Using data of non-financial listed firms between 1996 and 2000, our results are consistent with the argument of Friedman, Johnson, and Mitton (2003) that the propensity to prop and tunnel is higher for business group firms, in particular if they are organized in pyramids. Specifically, we find that firms that belong to the top 30 business groups implement a number of restructuring activities such as expansion, executive turnover, and dividend cuts, more often than non-group firms. Among the business group firms, we find that firms with the higher ratio of cash-flow rights to voting rights are less likely to implement the following restructuring actions: downsizing, expansion, and executive turnover. Interestingly, even in business group firms that employ less of pyramids, debt increases the probability of operational restructuring actions. This evidence is consistent with the view that debt increases the incentives of business groups controlling shareholders to prop up the firms during a moderate shock.
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