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Book An Analysis of the Relationship Between Product Diversification  Geographical Diversification and Technological Diversification

Download or read book An Analysis of the Relationship Between Product Diversification Geographical Diversification and Technological Diversification written by Michael Stephan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Relationship Between Product and Geographic Diversification

Download or read book The Relationship Between Product and Geographic Diversification written by Ohad Ref and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks a richer and more complete understanding of the process of firm growth by making a more fine-grained distinction between (1) the different patterns of product and geographic diversification, particularly between entering new product and geographic markets compared to expansion in existing noncore product and foreign markets; and (2) between firms with different diversification experience, specifically between single-country single-industry firms, single industry geographically-diversified firms, single-country product-diversified firms, and product and geographically-diversified firms. It shows that short-run constraints compel firms to choose between entering new product markets and new geographic markets, within a given time period, and that prior experience in entering new markets lessens the impact of short-run constraints on firm capacity to simultaneously extend product and geographic scope. Furthermore, it reveals that there is a significant difference between firm capacity to enter simultaneously into new product and geographic markets, compared to firm capacity to expand simultaneously within existing noncore product and foreign markets. Thus, it demonstrates the main argument of this paper concerning the importance of distinguishing between the different patterns of product and geographic diversification.

Book The Economics and Management of Technological Diversification

Download or read book The Economics and Management of Technological Diversification written by John Cantwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, attempts have been made to understand the patterns of corporate technological diversification and their implications in economic and managerial dimensions. This book consolidates these attempts and breaks new ground by examining the patterns of technological diversification, and their relationship with internationalisation, economic perfo

Book Measuring Geographic Diversification and Product Diversification

Download or read book Measuring Geographic Diversification and Product Diversification written by David G. Hoopes and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commitment

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  • Author : Pankaj Ghemawat
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 1991-08-15
  • ISBN : 1439106177
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Commitment written by Pankaj Ghemawat and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991-08-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To create a competitive advantage, a company must commit itself to developing a set of capabilities superior to its competitors; But such commitments tend to be costly and hard to reverse. How then, should a company decide which broad path, or strategy, to commit itself to? And how are competition and uncertainty to be accounted for in that decision? In this brilliant reassessment of how companies gain and sustain competitive advantage, Pankaj Ghemawat consolidates contemporary research in economics and other disciplines into a comprehensive yet practical framework for comparing commitments to strategically distinct options. This framework will help managers address specific strategic choices such as entry, exit, vertical/horizontal integration, capacity expansion, and innovation, as well as choices of generic strategy. Step by systematic step, Ghemawat provides managers with the tools and techniques they need to improve the quality of the choices that they make. Specifically, Ghemawat discusses: * how to identify the choices that are truly strategic -- that involve commitment -- before rather than after the fact * how to analyze the short-run and long-run competitive positions implied by a particular strategic option * how to assess the sustainability of superior competitive positions over time * how to account for the flexibility afforded by a particular option in dealing with future uncertainties * how to deal with both honest mistakes and deliberate distortions in the process of choice This pathbreaking book will help managers invest in the future. Its logic applies to choices involving disinvestment as well as those involving investment -- and to choices that embody elements of both. Its logic can be used for diagnostic purposes, such as the valuation of business, and most broadly, it win force managers to think about important issues that they may have tended to ignore. Ghemawat's discussion of these important ideas is concise, studded with detailed examples, based on rigorous research and, above all, practical. It will become required reading for thoughtful practitioners as well as practitionersto-be in the 1990s.

Book Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification

Download or read book Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification written by Brian S Silverman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-13 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive book sees the author applying and extending the resource based view of the firm to explain and predict the strategy of corporate diversification. Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification is an original and authoritative book that will be extremely useful to academics and students in such disciplines as business economics, corporate strategy and international business.

Book Export Diversification in Low Income Countries and Small States  Do Country Size and Income Level Matter

Download or read book Export Diversification in Low Income Countries and Small States Do Country Size and Income Level Matter written by Dongyeol Lee and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Export structure is less diversified in low-income countries (LICs) and especially small states that face resource constraints and small economic size. This paper explores the potential linkages between export structure and economic growth and its volatility in LICs and small states, using a range of indices of export concentration differing in the coverage of industries. The empirical analysis finds that export diversification may promote economic growth and reduce economic volatility in these countries. Furthermore, the analysis demonstrates that the economic benefits of export diversification differ by country size and income level—there are bigger benefits for relatively larger and poorer countries within the group of LICs and small states.

Book What Do Firms Know  What Do They Produce  A New Look at the Relationship Between Patenting Profiles and Patterns of Product Diversification

Download or read book What Do Firms Know What Do They Produce A New Look at the Relationship Between Patenting Profiles and Patterns of Product Diversification written by Giovanni Dosi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work we analyze the relationship between the patterns of firm diversification, if any, across product lines and across bodies of innovative knowledge, proxied by the patent classes where the firm is present. Putting it more emphatically we investigate the relationship between "what a firm does" and "what a firm knows". Using a newly developed dataset matching information on patents and products at the firm level, we provide evidence concerning firms' technological and product scope, their relationships, the size-scaling and coherence properties of diversification itself. Our analysis shows that typically firms are much more diversified in terms of products than in terms of technologies, with their main products more related to the exploitation of their innovative knowledge. The scaling properties show that the number of products and technologies increase log-linearly with firm size. And the directions of diversification themselves display coherence between neighboring activities also at relatively high degrees of diversification. These findings are well in tune with a capability-based theory of the firm.

Book Multinationals  Technology and Competitiveness  RLE International Business

Download or read book Multinationals Technology and Competitiveness RLE International Business written by John H. Dunning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores some aspects of the interface between technology, competitiveness and the role of multinational enterprises in the world economy. This group of essays stresses the role of asset creation and usage, rather than reliance on natural factor endowments as a basis for national competitiveness and examines the role of multinational enterprises as vehicles for technological transfer, and the efficient co-ordination of economic activity across national boundaries.

Book Diversification  Refocusing  and Economic Performance

Download or read book Diversification Refocusing and Economic Performance written by Constantinos Markides and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the causes and consequences of the "refocusing" phenomenon, where companies have stopped diversifying and begun focusing once more on their core product lines. Coverage includes a discussion of the effects of refocusing on market value, profitability and organizational structure.

Book The Economics and Management of Technological Diversification

Download or read book The Economics and Management of Technological Diversification written by John Cantwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And conclusionsFurther bibliography; Index.

Book Measuring the International Mobility of Inventors  A New Database

Download or read book Measuring the International Mobility of Inventors A New Database written by Ernest Miguelez and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2013 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper has two objectives. First, it describes a new database mapping migratory patterns of inventors, extracted from information included in patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. It explains in detail the information contained in the database and discusses the usefulness and reliability of the underlying data. Second, the paper provides a descriptive overview of inventor migration patterns, based on the information contained in the newly constructed database.

Book Technological Diversification

Download or read book Technological Diversification written by René Ceipek and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological diversification has been linked to a wide range of phenomena, including financial performance, innovation, product diversification and inter-organizational relationships. This is the first systematic review of this literature and provides an overview of its historical development and conceptual foundations. It finds that the role of contingency factors impacting the positive relationship between technological diversification and financial performance needs further exploration. Also, it finds that the research on the links between technological diversification and inter-organizational relationships requires consolidation. This paper suggests three avenues for further research. First, it sets out an agenda for identifying the antecedents of technological diversification. Second, it identifies contextual factors that could shape the relationship between technological diversification and performance. Third, it argues that technological diversification research must engage with contemporary technological and organizational developments such as digital organizations, open boundaries and networks.

Book Determinants of Technological Diversification

Download or read book Determinants of Technological Diversification written by Alexander Gerybadze and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Balancing Growth Across the Geographic and Product Diversification Domains   A Constingency Approach

Download or read book Balancing Growth Across the Geographic and Product Diversification Domains A Constingency Approach written by Niron Hashai and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We theorize that firms simultaneously seek to balance their growth across both the geographic and product diversification domains. To achieve this balance, businesses commonly adopt a strategy of expanding an under-diversified direction at the expense of an over-diversified one. Accordingly, we depict geographic diversification and product diversification as being an endogenous relationship, from which we hypothesize that firms that have under-diversified in a given direction and over-diversified in the other will expand the former at the expense of the latter. Meanwhile, firms that have under-diversified in both directions will expand both diversification paths, while firms that have over-diversified in both directions will contract in both diversification routes. We investigate these predicted relationships and show them empirically using a sample of leading Japanese multinationals in the 1990 to 2000 period.

Book The Performance of Small Firms

Download or read book The Performance of Small Firms written by David J. Storey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, originally published in 1987, addresses the question of small firm performance. Drawing on an extensive database containing financial, employment and ownership data for several thousand small firms, the book examines whether small firms do actually provide jobs, whether they grow and why small firms fail. Guidance is given on how to spot the signs of impending failure in a small business, which is of use to accountants small business PR actioners and government grant providers.