<Para ID="Par1">Large, extensively diversified pyramidal business groups of listed firms dominate the histories of developed economies and the economies of developing economies. While such groups (called zaibatsu in Japan) are thought to have provided coordination for big push growth successfully in...</para>

The paper outlines guidelines and pillars of a resource policy. Two reasons favour the formulation of such policy: a demand to increase sluggish resource productivity growth as well as environmental damages occurring along material flows at an international scale. Thus, it is both the innovation...

The article presents the processes of integration and disintegration in the economy due to the list of 100 largest U.S. corporations in years 1955–2011. The analyses are based on various statistics and indicators, including the Gini coefficient of distribution variation of corporate assets,...