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Donald A. Palmer, P. Devereaux Jennings, Xueguang Zhou, Late Adoption of the Multidivisional Form by Large U.S. Corporations: Institutional, Political, and Economic Accounts, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Mar., 1993), pp. 100-131
Palmer et al. (Mon,) studied this question.