Almost half a century of diversification research supports the suggestion that
related resources lead to a superior performance of multibusiness firms.
Nonetheless no direct measurement concept on a complete resource base of
a single business function exists up to now. This book is focusing on this gap
and the understanding of R&D. Besides the core question of relatedness there
are two main hypotheses developed: Is relatedness similar to the potential
synergies of a resource which is tested to be significantly true while knowledge
based resources are tested not to be more important for the...