Whittington, Richard; Mayer, Michael; Curto, Francesco - In: Industrial and Corporate Change 8 (1999) 3, pp. 519-50
This paper examines the Chandlerian model of corporate development in the light of new data on the strategies and structures of large European firms in the post-war period. Conglomerate strategies continue to spread, but these are typically less stable than strategies of related diversification....