Abstract In the past few years, diversification has turned into a highly controversial issue amongst numerous managers in almost each and every business. It is contended by many that diversification is vitally important and highly effective especially when it comes to evaluating the financial performance. There are several studies about the relationship between diversification and financial per...

The hapalindole-type alkaloids naturally show striking late stage diversification of what was believed to be a conserved intermediate, cis-indolyl vinyl isonitrile (1a). Here we demonstrate enzymatically, as well as through applying a synthetic biology approach, that the pathway generating 1a (itself, a potent natural broad-spectrum antibiotic) is also dramatically flexible. We harness this to ...

The present study attempts to link plant-level production diversification to productivity growth in Taiwan’s electronics industry. An account of the role of the Taiwanese government over the last 2 decades leading to the take-off of its electronics industry is briefly discussed. We reviewed production activities of more than 20 000 Taiwanese electronics plants during the period 1992–1999. In an...

Search result diversification has been effectively employed to tackle query ambiguity, particularly in the context of web search. However, ambiguity can manifest differently in different search verticals, with ambiguous queries spanning, e.g., multiple place names, content genres, or time periods. In this paper, we empirically investigate the need for diversity across four different verticals o...

First let me repeat the title, Integration and Diversification as Business Strategies--An Historical Analysis. Then, after a couple of definitions, I want to suggest the nature and the possible value of such an analysis. As for definition, by strategy I mean here a company's basic business objectives and policies. A senior executive defines basic strategy when he asks, "What exactly is our busi...

What are the relationships among firm size, initial product diversity, internafilled with uncertainty and ambiguity, company executives must make their strategic decisions on the basis of personal experitional diversification, and abrupt change in product diversity? Data analysis using a sample of 555 firms in diverse industries from COMPUSTAT for ence, stereotypes, and intuition, but with litt...

China has experimented with two strategies of reform of its state-owned enterprises (SOE). One is diversification of SOEs’ ownership through introducing non-state sources of investment. Another is to improve the management of SOEs by granting SOEs’ managers autonomy and their employees profit incentives. Utilising a data set on 680 SOEs over 1980-94, we tested the relative effectiveness of two ...

Consider a simple graph $G$. We call labeling $w:E(G)\cup V(G)\rightarrow \{1, 2, \dots, s\}$ (\textit{total vertex}) \textit{product-irregular}, if all product degrees $pd_G(v)$ induced by this are distinct, where $pd_G(v)=w(v)\times\prod_{e\ni v}w(e)$. The strength of $w$ is $s$, the maximum number used to label members $E(G)\cup V(G)$. minimum value $s$ that allows some irregular called \tex...