Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Ronald Jean Degen Author-Email: rjdegen@gmail.com Author-Workplace-Name: International School of Management Paris Title: The Resource-Based Horizontal Acquisition Strategy of JBS Abstract: This paper examines the resource-based horizontal acquisition strategy of JBS. This strategy transformed a relatively small business that was founded in 1953 (comprising a butcher shop and small abattoir located in a small town in the interior of Brazil) into the world?s biggest meat producer by 2010. Creation-Date: 2012-04-23 File-URL: https://globadvantage.ipleiria.pt/files/2012/04/working_paper-90_globadvantage.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Number: 90 Classification-JEL: M0, M1 Keywords: JBS, world?s biggest meat producer, horizontal acquisition strategy, resource-based strategy Handle: RePEc:pil:wpaper:90