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Silver, Morris.

Enterprise and the scope of the firm : the role of vertical integration / Morris Silver. - Oxford : M. Robertson, 1984. - xii, 191 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes index.

Preface and Acknowledgements --
Entrepreneurship: An Introductory Perspective --
Vertical Integration and the Employer-Employee Relationship --
Mergers and Economic Change --
The Onset of Vertical Integration --
Case Studies from American Business History --
Case Studies from Other Parts of the World --
Case Studies of Early Industrialization in Backward Areas --
Case Studies on the Roles of Merchants and Landowners --
A Model of Vertical Integration and Disintegration with Supporting Evidence --
The Cost-Minimizing Extent of Vertical Integration --
The Contributions of Managerial and Organizational --
Innovations and Technological Change --
Vertical Integration and the Passage of Time --
Vertical Integration and 'Quiet Times' --
The Tenacity of the Expertise Factor --
Original Innovators Compared with New Entrants --
An Econometric Challenge --
Case Study Evidence --
Marxist Perspectives on Vertical Integration --
The Alleged Modernity of Vertical Integration

ISBN: 085520737X :

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Vertical integration.

LC Class. No.: HD2748 / .S54