This paper brings together evolutionary economics and resource-based approaches to the study of the firm and focuses them upon the issue of technological diversification. Despite the empirical observations that the world is increasingly technologically complex, technological diversification is little studied. Traditional researches into diversification within the firm have still tended to focus...

Numerous studies have examined the impact of international diversification on firm performance. However, literature is characterised by inconsistent findings, suggesting need for a quantitative review and synthesis hypothesised relationships. Using sample 263 effect sizes from 187 primary between 1974 2021, we conduct meta-analysis to test relationship performance, moderating product diversific...

The current diversity of life on earth is the product of macroevolutionary processes that have shaped the dynamics of diversification. Although the tempo of diversification has been studied extensively in macroorganisms, much less is known about the rates of diversification in the exceedingly diverse and species-rich microbiota. Decreases in diversification rates over time, a signature of explo...

The construction industry is the pillar industry in China, accounting for about 6% of the gross domestic product. Along with changes in the external environment of the construction industry in China, the construction firm faces fierce competition. The paper aims to investigate the relationship between diversified types of construction firm and its performance in China. Based on generalist and s...

In 1952, Nobel Laureate Harry Markowitz, . . . , demonstrated mathematically why putting all your eggs in one basket is an unacceptably risky strategy and why diversification is the nearest an investor or business manager can ever come to a free lunch. That revelation touched off the intellectual movement that revolutionized Wall Street, corporate finance, and business decisions around the worl...

In a software product family context, software architects anticipate product diversification and design architectures that support variants in both space (multiple contexts) and time (changing contexts). Product diversification is based on the concept of variability: a single architecture and a set of components support a family of products. Software product families need to support increasing ...

The study of diversification and firm performance lies at the heart of the strategy literature (Dess, Gupta, Hennart, & Hill, 1995). Nevertheless, in spite of all the efforts of researchers to untangle the diversificationperformance relationship milieu, there is still much confusion surrounding this vital issue. One potential source of confusion centers on the type of diversification being purs...