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Lateral expansion, in economics, is the growth of a business enterprise through the acquisition of similar companies, in the hope of achieving economies of scale or economies of scope. Unchecked lateral expansion can lead to powerful conglomerates or monopolies.
Related is vertical expansion, which is the growth of a business enterprise through the acquisition of companies that produce the intermediate goods needed by the business or help market and distribute its final goods. Any such value chain activities can be acquired through vertical expansion.
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Lateralexpansion, in economics, is the growth of a business enterprise through the acquisition of similar companies, in the hope of achieving economies...
to the three basic types of movement: axial, angular and lateralexpansion joints. Expansion joints have usage in various sectors, like energy production...
fusion of the sagittal suture. Premature closure results in limited lateralexpansion of the skull resulting in a characteristic long, narrow head. The...
the endoplasmic reticulum during mitosis, reassembly involves the lateralexpansion around the chromatin with stabilization of the expanding membrane...
coordinated behavior achieved by the dorsal rotation of the dermatocranium, lateralexpansion of the suspensorium, and the depression of the lower jaw and hyoid...
A lateral eruption or lateral blast is a volcanic eruption which is directed laterally from a volcano rather than upwards from the summit. Lateral eruptions...
ductwork. An expansion joint is designed to allow deflection in the axial (compressive), lateral (shear), or angular (bending) deflections. Expansion joints...
Cost or savings of thermal expansion in above ground tanks. Artofbeingcheap.com (2013-09-06). Retrieved 2014-01-19. Lateral, Angular and Combined Movements...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States, is a rare but terminal neurodegenerative...
heated cylinder and is forced to follow this brief compression and lateralexpansion, and relaxation. It is thus shrunk. The greater the pressure applied...
required to rectify anti-competitive behavior. Related to vertical expansion is lateralexpansion, which is the growth of a business enterprise through the acquisition...
the lack of tubercules on the neural spines of B. excelsus and the lateralexpansion of unbifurcated neural spines in B. parvus. Its dorsal vertebrae had...
head of the metacarpal and the proximal phalanx. The expansion soon divides into three bands: lateral bands pass on either side of the proximal phalanx and...
promote axial elongation (as in shoots), lateralexpansion (as in root swelling), or iso-diametric expansion (as in fruit growth). In some cases (coleoptile...
The voiced alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
yogic breathing exercises. Costal breathing is the inhalation by lateralexpansion of the ribs, using the external intercostal muscle to lift the costals...
cerebellar lateralexpansion, or the neocerebellum, may be associated with cognitive functions, and it is anatomically linked with the lateral prefrontal...
considered the Anhangueridae to be typified by a premaxillary crest and a lateralexpansion in the distal rostrum. The same study presented a cladistic analysis...
The lateral hypothalamus (LH), also called the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA), contains the primary orexinergic nucleus within the hypothalamus that widely...
builds up below the living polyps, resulting in a thickening and lateralexpansion of the coral. Ruppert, Edward E.; Fox, Richard, S.; Barnes, Robert...
pre- and post-spinal laminae in anterior caudals, a laterally flared ilium, a lateralexpansion of the upper femur, and strongly opisthocoelous posterior...
lateral approximant (the sound represented in IPA by lowercase [l]) occurs before a vowel, as in lip or blend, while the velarized alveolar lateral approximant...
poles and from which the lateral roots are derived entirely. These cells then undergo further division, causing radial expansion. Stage II: The small, central...
bitemporal superior quadrantanopia. Lateralexpansion of a pituitary adenoma can also compress the abducens nerve, causing a lateral rectus palsy. Also, a pituitary...
intermediate cuneiform, also known as the middle cuneiform the third or lateral cuneiform They are located between the navicular bone and the first, second...
extreme lateral subnuclei; the lateral crescent and subparabrachial nucleus (Kolliker-Fuse nucleus) along the ventrolateral margin of the lateral parabrachial...
more markedly so in that of many species of Geolycosa, where the lateralexpansions often conceal the openings of the spermathecae, as in the epigyne...
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