Strategie dywersyfikacji przedsiębiorstw – przegląd badań światowych
Diversification strategies - the review of international research papers

Summary/Abstract: The main goal of the article is to conduct a review of research papers in the field of diversification strategy. After a short introduction to the issue of diversification the author describes early studies in this area. The next point is to present key measures of corporate diversification based on SIC; Herfindahl-Hirschmann index; number-equivalent of industries and entropy measure. Then the overview of the key research areas of diversification is presented: the relationship between diversification and performance; related and unrelated diversification; the impact of ownership structure on diversification; as well as competitive and market conditions for diversification. The conclusion of the article presents the review of the latest research papers in the field of corporate diversification strategies in the years 2010-2015.

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