Agglomeration, Technology and Business Groups,

In this book the authors show that any useful investigation of the organization and strategies of firms needs to take the business groups as the basic units of analysis. This premise underpins their analysis of the impact of two structural variables - spatial agglomeration and technology - on firm strategy and organization. Via a new dataset on Italian business groups, specific insights into the formulation of diversification strategies, location choices made and variances in vertical integration are provided.