Cainelli, Giulio; Iacobucci, Donato - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 16 (2009) 3, pp. 305-322
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of technology and spatial agglomeration in decisions about vertical integration. It starts from the hypothesis that the business group, defined as a set of firms under common ownership and control, is the appropriate unit to delimit the firm's...