Bottazzi, Giulio; Secchi, Angelo - In: Review of Industrial Organization 26 (2005) 2, pp. 195-216
In this paper we present a description of the growth and diversification patterns of the top firms in the worldwide …. Our study confirms the results of previous empirical analyses of the growth dynamics of firms but also reveals structural … disaggregation, we are able to analyze the diversification structure of the firm and study its relation with the aggregate firm size …