The paper Investigates stability and change of regional economic activities in the longrun. As the unit of analysis we selected the machine tool industry in West Germany for the years 1953 to 2002. We spot a strong variance in the activities between the different regions. These differences are relatively stable over time and the regional activities are rather path-dependent. Nevertheless, the p...

Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) periodically decide on both which products to launch (or phase out) and in global regions, thereby conducting an integrated products-countries consideration diversification strategies. Over time, these decisions can have a cumulative impact the structure. Diversification literature has primarily focused one of two metrics rather than providing view; this work in...

Abstract Efficient synthetic techniques for the diversification of natural products are incremental drug discovery processes pharmaceutical industry because these complex bioactive compounds often require an adjustment properties. Human liver P450 3A4, key player body's detoxification system and decisive factor a drug's metabolic fate, is renowned its broad substrate scope including many produc...

This paper presents an oligopoly model of multiproduct firms in which firms are endowed with possibly different marginal cost and product quality, and choose product ranges before product market competition. Consistent with empirical evidence on a positive relationship between firm size and product diversification, the analysis suggests that firms with higher quality-cost margins typically have...

Received: 1 March 2005 Revised: 22 November 2007 Accepted: 11 December 2007 Online publication date: 27 March 2008 Abstract We examine the product diversification of a multinational firm within each of its host-country markets. Based on a sample of 12,992 foreign subsidiaries of Japanese multinational firms, we find that higher levels of within-country product diversity led to higher subsidiary...