Diversity, diversification, and profitability among British manufacturing companies, 1972-84

Article Abstract:

This study investigated the causal relationships between diversity, diversification, and profitability among 304 large British manufacturing companies that differed in both product and multinational diversity. Diversity and profitability were positively related up to a point; after that point increases in product diversity were associated with declining profitability. The results were unclear with respect to the underlying causal relationships. Product diversification did not increase profitability, and there was limited evidence that profitability promoted diversification. For multinational diversification, however, we found that profitability in the home market encouraged overseas expansion that in turn increased profitability. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

United Kingdom, Analysis, Management, Usage, Corporations, Business planning, Diversification in industry, Industrial diversification, Great Britain, Corporations, British

---

Information sources used for strategic planning decisions in small firms

Article Abstract:

Sources used by strategic planning groups in small firms to collect information on the environment were studied. The relationship between perceived environmental change and complexity and use of personal and impersonal information sources was found not to be direct, but moderated by uncertainty about planning and intolerance of the ambiguous situation. In addition, personal sources were found to be used more than impersonal. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Planning, Small business, Information services

---

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Determinants of a relational exchange orientation in the marketing-manufacturing interface: an empirical investigation
• Abstracts: Multi-activity facility design and location problems. Selecting a set of vendors in a manufacturing environment
• Abstracts: Organizational integration and process innovation. U.S.-Japanese manufacturing equity relationships
• Abstracts: The dynamics of organizational proximity. Participation, satisfaction, and productivity: a meta-analytic review
• Abstracts: Pricing strategies for manufacturers. Managing in a reorganization

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.