1. Developmental Models and Corporate Growth.
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Tilles, Seymour
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CORPORATE growth ,MERGERS & acquisitions ,DEVELOPMENT economics ,ECONOMIC expansion ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,DIVERSIFICATION in industry ,SUSTAINABLE development ,ECONOMIC development ,CAPITAL investments - Abstract
The article discusses issues relating to corporate growth. Firms can grow in a variety of ways including through acquisition and merger, increasing the number of locations at which a particular activity is carried on, and expanding at a single location. When a firm chooses to grow through acquisition and merger the major internal changes occur in top management. Experts say a key prerequisite for rapid economic growth is investment in social overheads. They explain that without such investment particularly in fields such as education, transportation, and housing economic development cannot be sustained.
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- 1964
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