Description: Exploring hypotheses about purposive diversification and ensuing economic performance, this study offers insights into the debate about cooperation versus competition among firms.
Review Quotes: "This book, the product of research over a ten-year period with Federal Trade Commission Line of Business data and linked data sets, provides many new insights into the effects of diversification by U.S. manufacturing corporations...I emerge with many prior doubts about the effects of diversification altered by Scott's prodigious research..." F.M. Scherer, Harvard University, Journal of Economic Literature