The purpose of this research is to explore the relationships among shares of insider owners, corporate strategies, and performance. The classification of insiders in this research includes the directors and supervisors, large shareholders, and managers. This research treats corporate strategies as intervening variables. This paper adopted data from “2004-2008 Business Groups in Taiwan,” edited by the China Credit Information Service. After surveying secondary data from 266 core firms of business group, this study found that the shares of insiders have significant relationships with performance. As to the intervening effect, the shares of insiders will affect firms’ performance through corporate strategic decisions. This phenomenon implies that insider shareholders will dedicate to improve corporate performance in order to maintain their own interests. However, they tend to not adopt diversification strategies due to avoid investing risks. |