In a multi-unit firm such as a retail chain or a multi-plant manufacturer we compare the business strategies developed by unit managers with the strategies that maximize corporate profit The setting is one in which units face different markets and where learning spillovers between two units are enhanced if their strategies are more similar When there is a small number of units we find a tendency for managers' strategies to be excessively tailored to their local market When the firm has many units unit strategies can be either excessively or insufficiently standardized
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Paper provided by The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics in its series Economics Working Paper Archive with number
418.