Purposive Diversification and Economic Performance

Exploring hypotheses about purposive diversification and ensuing economic performance, this study offers insights into the debate about cooperation versus competition among firms.

List of contents

Introduction: An overview; Part I. Static Efficiency and the Diversified Firm: 1. The multimarket firm; 2. Theories linking multimarket contact and market power; 3. Diversifying mergers and strategic congruence; 4. Multimarket contact and resource allocation; 5. The market power of diversifed oligopolists; Part II. Firm and Industry Effects Versus Traditional Models: 6. Profitability effects; 7. R & D intensity effects; Part III. Dynamic Efficiency and the Diversified Firm: 8. Theories linking diversification and the R & D investment; 9. Diversification of R & D and productivity; 10. Multimarket rivalry and R & D intensity; 11. Research diversity induced by rivalry; Part IV. Industrial Policy: 12. Diversification versus cooperation in R & D; 13. From cooperative research to cooperative production; 14. Damoclean taxation and innovation; Afterword: perspectives through time and across countries; Notes; References; Index.

Summary

Exploring hypotheses about purposive diversification and ensuing economic performance, this study offers insights into the debate about cooperation versus competition among firms.

Product details

• Authors: John T. Scott
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780521430159
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43015-9
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 237 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 532 g
• Illustrations: 21 b/w illus. 32 tables, Zeichnungen, nicht spezifiziert, Tabellen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Comparative, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies