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Thornton, Patricia Helmke.

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From craft house to corporate enterprise: Acquisition growth of college publishing, 1958 to 1990.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From craft house to corporate enterprise: Acquisition growth of college publishing, 1958 to 1990./
Author:	Thornton, Patricia Helmke.
Description:	198 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-09, Section: A, page: 3608.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-09A.
Subject:	Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9404029

From craft house to corporate enterprise: Acquisition growth of college publishing, 1958 to 1990.
Thornton, Patricia Helmke.

From craft house to corporate enterprise: Acquisition growth of college publishing, 1958 to 1990. - 198 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-09, Section: A, page: 3608.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1993.

This research investigates factors associated with the risk of acquisition and the pattern of acquisition growth in the college publishing industry from 1958 to 1990. This study integrates economic and sociological perspectives and uses dynamic statistical techniques to explain the risk of acquisition and acquisition activity. Three alternative approaches motivated by organization theory are considered: Strategic adaptation of firms, institutional diffusion of management strategies, and environmental selection processes. Event history analyses are conducted on a longitudinal sample of the population of college publishers. Findings are also supported by interview data from publishers and investment bankers.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations.

From craft house to corporate enterprise: Acquisition growth of college publishing, 1958 to 1990.
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502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1993.
520 $a This research investigates factors associated with the risk of acquisition and the pattern of acquisition growth in the college publishing industry from 1958 to 1990. This study integrates economic and sociological perspectives and uses dynamic statistical techniques to explain the risk of acquisition and acquisition activity. Three alternative approaches motivated by organization theory are considered: Strategic adaptation of firms, institutional diffusion of management strategies, and environmental selection processes. Event history analyses are conducted on a longitudinal sample of the population of college publishers. Findings are also supported by interview data from publishers and investment bankers.
520 $a The increasing rate of acquisition growth in the industry is viewed in the context of the evolution of the organizational field and the influence of the larger business cultural environment on management strategy. In particular, the growth of dominant firms, changes in career patterns of CEOs, and the development of status competition within the industry is argued to produce greater reliance on acquisition growth strategies over time.
520 $a Factors that are associated with the risk of acquisition are firm level strategic changes, inter-firm resource dependencies, and changes in the carrying capacity of the environment. In comparing acquisition waves in the 1960s and 1980s, both general and industry specific institutional forces are argued to shape acquisition activity. In the conglomerate era acquisition wave in the later 1960s, management strategy was to a greater extent driven by general forces external to the college publishing industry--the diversification movement. In the second acquisition wave in the later 1980s, industry specific institutional forces such as the structural embeddedness of investment "deal-makers" is used to explain an acquisition wave bandwagon effect. Contrary to efficiency explanations, in both acquisition waves, acquisition activity continued to increase during a stock market decline.
520 $a In conclusion, explanations confined to efficiency based assumptions, theories of managerialism, and cross sectional approaches are limited in explaining the risk of acquisition and why industries grow by acquisition activity. Issues surrounding acquisition activity are best examined under a broad framework that includes economic and sociological perspectives informed from organization theory and supported by longitudinal data and dynamic models.
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