"A" and "C" corporate reorganizations a comparison

Over the last few decades corporate growth and expansion have become the indicators of management's success. Management's failure to produce growth and earnings has resulted in personnel dismissal. The prime consideration of managers must be to insure earnings and growth. Corporations may expand by two methods: internal growth and external growth. Internal growth occurs mainly through reinvestment of earnings and the resultant expansion of the corporation. An important way for external growth is the purchase of one corporation by another in order to boost the status of the purchasing corporation. External growth has been common throughout the 1960's and the early 1970's.