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I don't think the lifespan figure usually accounts for mergers and acquisitions. It is not always clear that a company "died" if it still continues under a diff
by TheCowboy 11y ago
I don't think the lifespan figure usually accounts for mergers and acquisitions. It is not always clear that a company "died" if it still continues under a different corporate brand.
I haven't found any articles that try to sift the data based on this, so it's possible that it isn't a significant factor.
It might be interesting to compare this recent period of consolidation with the turn of the century when Pres. Theodore Roosevelt became known as a "trust-buster".
- cafard 11y agoInteresting point. I remember that the University of Denver ended up with the physical plant of Colorado Women's College, but to what extent it assimilated it otherwise--faculty, staff, students, programs--I don't think I ever heard. Apparently Yale once had the notion that absorbing Vassar would be a quick way to go coeducational. I can't offhand think of other consolidations or proposed consolidations of colleges, though.
- zepto 11y agoGiven how many corporations do dwindle and fail, it's hard for me to believe that the lifespan would be categorically different. Even if it were doubled because of mergers, that wouldn't change the logic.