1st Edition

Technological Resources and the Logic of Corporate Diversification

By Brian S Silverman Copyright 2002

    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.

    1. Introduction 2. Review of Prior Theoretical and Empirical Research on Diversification 3. The Effect of Resource Attributes on the Direction, Mode and Performance of Corporate Diversification 4. Patent Data and Construction of a US Patent Class - SIC Concordance 5. An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Technological Resources on the Direction of Corporate Diversification 6. An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Technological Resources on the Mode of Corporate Diversification 7. Conclusion

    Biography

    Brian S Silverman