The origin of strategy / Bruce D. Henderson -- How competitive forces shape strategy / Michael E. Porter -- Sustainable advantage / Pankaj Ghemawat -- Time : the next source of competitive advantage / George Stalk, Jr. -- Getting back to strategy / Kenichi Ohmae -- Information technology changes...

Resource-Based and Evolutionary Theories of the Firm: Towards a Synthesis explores the intersection of evolutionary theories of the firm with an emergent body of research in the field of strategic management that has been broadly referred to as the `resource-based view of the firm'. The volume...

This paper documents the significant presence of diversified firms in the U.S. economy and presents three views on why firms diversify. The market power view argues that firms diversify to wield conglomerate power across markets. The agency view argues that diversification is undertaken by...