Changing big business in Italy and Spain, 1973-2003: Strategic responses to a new context

Business History

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-39

  Binda, Veronica ^a,b   Colli, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Big business; Diversification strategy; European integration; Harvard Research Project; Internationalisation strategy; Italy; Organisational structure; Ownership; Spain

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CYCLE; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ECONOMIC HISTORY; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; GLOBALIZATION; MACROECONOMICS; OWNERSHIP;

ITALY; SPAIN;

EID: 79951921724     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2011.546658     Document Type: Article

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