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Corporate diversification: organization capital, organic growth, and long-term performance
| Title: | Corporate diversification: organization capital, organic growth, and long-term performance. |
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| Name(s): |
Smith, Garrett C., author Garcia-Feijoo, Luis, Thesis advisor Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor College of Business Department of Finance |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Date Created: | 2015 | |
| Date Issued: | 2015 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
| Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
| Extent: | 158 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | Corporate diversification is a core topic in Financial Economics. The desire to better understand why a firm elects to diversify as opposed to increase in scale is the motivation of this dissertation. To accomplish this goal I test a number of dynamic models of corporate diversification, with similar predictions, to better understand the dynamic choice to diversify. I find that several previously untested models do indeed provide insight as to why a firm would diversify (Essay One). In particular two firm traits, firm talent which I use the proxy of organization capital and asset specificity which I use the proxy of asset tangibility, are strongly related to propensity of the firm to engage in corporate diversification for the first time. | |
| Identifier: | FA00004468 (IID) | |
| Degree granted: | Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2015 | |
| Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
| Note(s): | Includes bibliography. | |
| Subject(s): |
Competition Corporate reorganizations Corporations -- Growth Diversification in industry Economics -- Sociological effects Industrial organization |
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| Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
| Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
| Links: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004468 | |
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| Host Institution: | FAU | |
| Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |
