Corporate Strategy and Firm Growth: Creating Value for Shareholders

by Angelo Dringoli

Overview

This book explores the conditions for growth that can create value for shareholders, focusing on the main strategies adopted by firms including horizontal expansion, vertical integration and product diversification. To evaluate whether or not a particular growth strategy is successful, the author examines the economic fundamentals of each strategy and presents analytical models of both internal development and external acquisition. He moves on to present four case studies of successful companies to highlight how a firm chooses and implements a defined growth strategy.

This stimulating integrated analysis will appeal to researchers and students in business administration as well as managers, entrepreneurs and consultants involved in strategic management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857938275
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	01/30/2012
Series:	New Perspectives on the Modern Corporation series
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Angelo Dringoli, Professor, School of Economics and Management, Department of Business and Law, University of Siena, Italy

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface Part I: Growth Strategies and Firm Value 1. Growth Strategies: Types and Fundamental Bases 2. Analytical Models for Evaluating Growth Strategies 3. Horizontal Expansion Strategies 4. Product Diversification Strategies 5. Vertical Integration Strategies 6. Designing the Appropriate Organizational Structures for Implementing Growth Strategies 7. Limits to Firm Size Part II: Growth Strategies in Practice: Four Cases of Successful Firms 8. L’Oreal: Product Diversification and Horizontal Expansion 9. Campari: Product Diversification and International Expansion through Acquisitions 10. Luxottica: A Multidimensional Growth Strategy 11. Geox: Horizontal Expansion through Organic Development References Index