{"product_id":"purposive-diversification-and-economic-performance-paperback-9780521022583","title":"Purposive Diversification and Economic Performance (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521022583","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePurposive Diversification and Economic Performance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExploring hypotheses about purposive diversification and ensuing economic performance, this study offers insights into the debate about cooperation versus competition among firms.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn T. Scott (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521022583, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 November 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages, 21 b\/w illus.  32 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.4 x 1.8 cm, 0.423 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'John Scott has produced an encompassing work on the incentives for diversification and its ramifications … The book is good. It is specific to the topic of purposive diversification. But within that topic, it is complete.' David I. Rosenbaum, Review of Industrial Organization\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book examines product-line diversification in large manufacturing firms. It introduces and applies a methodology that discerns groups of manufacturing industries related by complementarities in production, marketing, distribution, and research and development (R\u0026amp;D) activities. Manufacturing firms intentionally vary production to exploit these complementarities, and Professor Scott uses evidence from US manufacturing to explore hypotheses about such purposive diversification and ensuing economic performance, including product diversification's effects on both static efficiency and the optimality of R\u0026amp;D investment. The study offers insights into the policy debate about cooperation versus competition among firms: will industrial performance be better if leading firms cooperate on research, production, and marketing? Professor Scott shows that the answers depend on circumstances that vary with different industrial environments. His analysis offers insights about business strategy and public policy toward business combinations in conglomerate, vertical, and horizontal mergers and in cooperative R\u0026amp;D ventures.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: An overview\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Static Efficiency and the Diversified Firm: 1. The multimarket firm\u003cbr\u003e 2. Theories linking multimarket contact and market power\u003cbr\u003e 3. Diversifying mergers and strategic congruence\u003cbr\u003e 4. Multimarket contact and resource allocation\u003cbr\u003e 5. The market power of diversifed oligopolists\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Firm and Industry Effects Versus Traditional Models: 6. Profitability effects\u003cbr\u003e 7. R \u0026amp; D intensity effects\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Dynamic Efficiency and the Diversified Firm: 8. Theories linking diversification and the R \u0026amp; D investment\u003cbr\u003e 9. Diversification of R \u0026amp; D and productivity\u003cbr\u003e 10. Multimarket rivalry and R \u0026amp; D intensity\u003cbr\u003e 11. Research diversity induced by rivalry\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Industrial Policy: 12. Diversification versus cooperation in R \u0026amp; D\u003cbr\u003e 13. From cooperative research to cooperative production\u003cbr\u003e 14. Damoclean taxation and innovation\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: perspectives through time and across countries\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Development economics \u0026amp; emerging economies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Development economics \u0026amp; emerging economies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Development%20economics%20\u0026amp;%20emerging%20economies%20%5BKCM%5D%22\"\u003eKCM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006165537048,"sku":"9780521022583","price":28.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521022583i.jpg?v=1694963598","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/purposive-diversification-and-economic-performance-paperback-9780521022583","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}