Rationalizing the Unrelated Acquisition

Chandler Alfred D. , Strategy and Structure (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1962).

Ibid., p. 385.

Ibid., p. 392.

Stigler George J. , foreword in Gort Michael , Diversification and Integration in American Industry (Princeton University Press, 1962), p. XIX.

Wrigley Leonard , Divisional Autonomy and Diversification, unpublished dissertation (Harvard Business School, 1970).

Rumelt Richard P. , Strategy, Structure and Economic Performance (Boston).

Business Week, “NL Industries: Getting the Lead Out To Strike It Rich in Oil Services” (2 December 1979), pp. 97–98.

Chandler , op. cit., p. 391.

The New York Times Magazine, “The Time of Conglomerates” (27 October 1968), p. 142.

Chandler Alfred D. , The Visible Hand (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1977), p. 490.