Restructuring's Effect on Related and Unrelated Diversification Among Top Food Manufacturing Firms in the 1980s

John Y. Ding, Julie Caswell () and Richard T. Rogers

No 116118, Working Papers from Regional Research Project NE-165 Private Strategies, Public Policies, and Food System Performance

Abstract: Corporate restructuring during the 1980s is argued to have focused on improving firm performance by increasing related and decreasing unrelated diversification. The restructuring patterns of top food manufacturing firms do not support this; instead, much of the restructuring appears to have been driven by the pursuit of stronger market positions. The

Keywords: Agribusiness; Industrial Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
Date: 1993-12
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/116118/files/WP-38.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:rpspwp:116118

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.116118

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Regional Research Project NE-165 Private Strategies, Public Policies, and Food System Performance Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().