The Resource-Based Horizontal Acquisition Strategy of JBS
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This paper examines the resource-based horizontal acquisition strategy of JBS. This strategy transformed a relatively small business that was founded in 1953 (comprising a butcher shop and small abattoir located in a small town in the interior of Brazil) into the world?s biggest meat producer by 2010.Download Info
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Paper provided by globADVANTAGE, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria in its series Working Papers with number 90.Length:
Date of creation: 23 Apr 2012
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Handle: RePEc:pil:wpaper:90
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Keywords: JBS; world?s biggest meat producer; horizontal acquisition strategy; resource-based strategy;Find related papers by JEL classification:
- M0 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - General
- M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Business Administration
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:
- NEP-ALL-2012-08-23 (All new papers)
- NEP-CSE-2012-08-23 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-HIS-2012-08-23 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
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- Carvalho, Flavia & Costa, Ionara & Duysters, Geert, 2010. "Global Players from Brazil: drivers and challenges in the internationalization process of Brazilian firms," UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series 016, United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology.
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