Diversified firms: existence and behaviors

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We propose a micro-founded theory of diversified firms. The theory suggests that diversified firms exist because they allow better deployment of factors that, because of sub-additive contracting costs, are hard to trade in fractions. Fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wernerfelt, Birger
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144254