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Diversification Strategies and Performance in the Italian Banking System

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This chapter addresses the subject of diversification in the Italian banking sector. The Italian banking system represents an ideal experimental setting since it is characterized by a heterogeneous range of banks. The processes of deregulation, innovation and consolidation during the 1990s prompted a new competitive contest within the banking system, which forced new managerial strategies to emerge from attempts to find new opportunities in terms of increased profits.

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  1. University of Gothenburg, Sweden

    Ted Lindblom (Professor of Business Administration) & Stefan Sjögren (Associate Professor of Business Administration) (Professor of Business Administration) &  (Associate Professor of Business Administration)

  2. Linnaeus University, Sweden

    Magnus Willesson (Senior Lecturer) (Senior Lecturer)

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Brighi, P., Venturelli, V. (2014). Diversification Strategies and Performance in the Italian Banking System. In: Lindblom, T., Sjögren, S., Willesson, M. (eds) Governance, Regulation and Bank Stability. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137413543_9

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