IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-04483-2_4.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Assets

In: Competition Policy, Profitability and Growth

Author

Listed:
  • D. P. O’Brien

    (University of Durham)

  • W. S. Howe

    (Dundee College of Technology)

  • D. M. Wright

    (University of Nottingham)

  • R. J. O’Brien

    (University of Southampton)

Abstract

In this chapter we are concerned with total growth. This includes, therefore, both internal growth and external growth through acquisition and merger. We will deal with the question of external growth separately in Chapter 6. At present our concern is with the total progress of the enterprise. It did not seem desirable to subtract external from total growth to obtain internal growth because the two are, to some extent, substitutes. (In any case our external growth data may be incomplete.) It seemed more appropriate to look at the total experience of the enterprise and then to look at its external growth. Nevertheless, because total growth includes acquisitions, the data tend to exhibit extreme values.1 But these occur mainly in the third of our periods, and the problem is not so acute in the first and second periods. However, as the notes to Tables 4.1 and 4.2 indicate, we did find it necessary to omit some extreme values to run the parametric tests at all.

Suggested Citation

  • D. P. O’Brien & W. S. Howe & D. M. Wright & R. J. O’Brien, 1979. "Assets," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Competition Policy, Profitability and Growth, chapter 4, pages 38-53, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-04483-2_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04483-2_4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-04483-2_4. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.