The announcement of Citicorp's merger with Travelers Insurance, and much of the accompanying commentary by banking observers and consultants, included many references to cross-marketing opportunities, one-stop shopping, and other potential scope economies—the gains from having a single firm provide different goods or services. Some skeptics have noted that these scope economies, which seem so p...

This work proposes a framework for financial product recommendation which combines case-based reasoning with diversification techniques to support wealth managers in recommending personalized investment portfolios. The performance of the framework has been evaluated against 1172 real users, and results show that the yield obtained by recommended portfolios overcomes that of portfolios proposed ...

This paper is aimed to show evidence about unbalanced wealth distribution in Mexico, affording more information, knowledge and sensitivity from citizens and Mexican government on behalf of looking for an equitable economic development and increasing the national welfare are the objective from this investigation. Across the assumption: “The growth of FEMSA from geographical and product diversifi...

This paper examines firms and the products they manufacture — and abandon — over time. We find strong relationships between product switching and a number of microand macroeconomic variables, including firm performance, aggregate manufacturing growth and product diversification. Most importantly, product switching is a very important — and active — margin of firm adjustment that is positively c...

Abstract In the past few years, diversification has turned into a highly controversial issue amongst numerous managers in almost each and every business. It is contended by many that diversification is vitally important and highly effective especially when it comes to evaluating the financial performance. There are several studies about the relationship between diversification and financial per...

The hapalindole-type alkaloids naturally show striking late stage diversification of what was believed to be a conserved intermediate, cis-indolyl vinyl isonitrile (1a). Here we demonstrate enzymatically, as well as through applying a synthetic biology approach, that the pathway generating 1a (itself, a potent natural broad-spectrum antibiotic) is also dramatically flexible. We harness this to ...

The present study attempts to link plant-level production diversification to productivity growth in Taiwan’s electronics industry. An account of the role of the Taiwanese government over the last 2 decades leading to the take-off of its electronics industry is briefly discussed. We reviewed production activities of more than 20 000 Taiwanese electronics plants during the period 1992–1999. In an...

Search result diversification has been effectively employed to tackle query ambiguity, particularly in the context of web search. However, ambiguity can manifest differently in different search verticals, with ambiguous queries spanning, e.g., multiple place names, content genres, or time periods. In this paper, we empirically investigate the need for diversity across four different verticals o...

First let me repeat the title, Integration and Diversification as Business Strategies--An Historical Analysis. Then, after a couple of definitions, I want to suggest the nature and the possible value of such an analysis. As for definition, by strategy I mean here a company's basic business objectives and policies. A senior executive defines basic strategy when he asks, "What exactly is our busi...

What are the relationships among firm size, initial product diversity, internafilled with uncertainty and ambiguity, company executives must make their strategic decisions on the basis of personal experitional diversification, and abrupt change in product diversity? Data analysis using a sample of 555 firms in diverse industries from COMPUSTAT for ence, stereotypes, and intuition, but with litt...