Corporate Growth and Diversification

Charles Horace Berry

Published by Princeton University Press 1975

Corporate Growth and Diversification

Charles Horace Berry

Volume 1722 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400872961

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As an increasing number of large corporations branch out into many fields of industry, public concern over the lateral extension of their power is aroused. Arguing that entry by large firms into concentrated industries may instead stimulate competition, Charles H. Berry analyzes the effect that such diversification has on corporate growth and on the structure and functioning of industrial markets.

To identify a relationship between the growth of large corporations and the pattern of their diversifying activities, Professor Berry examines 460 of the largest U.S. industrial corporations. In tracing the effects of their entry into some 200 manufacturing industries, he develops new and striking evidence of the protected position of leading firms in concentrated industries, a position that can be effectively undermined by the diversification of more powerful corporations into these industries.

Originally published in 1975.

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Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
I. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. Corporate Size: Concepts and Interpretation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
III: Inter-Industry Aspects of Corporate Concentration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
IV: Corporate Growth, Entry, and Diversification Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
V. Diversification Within and Among 2-Digit Industry Groups Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
VI: Corporate Diversification and Market Structure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
VII. Summary and Interpretation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
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