Late Adoption of the Multidivisional Form by Large U.S. Corporations: Institutional, Political, and Economic Accounts
- 1 March 1993
- journal article
- review article
- Published by JSTOR in Administrative Science Quarterly
- Vol. 38 (1) , 100-131
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2393256
Abstract
This paper presents a refined test of the institutional, political, and economic accounts of adoption of the multidivisional form (MDF) among large U.S. industr...This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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