horizontal integration

English

Noun

horizontal integration (countable and uncountable, plural horizontal integrations)

1. (economics) The integrating of identical stages in the production or marketing process under the ownership or control of a single management organization.
   • 2003, Rachel Schurman, Dennis D. Kelso, chapter 1, in Engineering trouble: biotechnology and its discontents, →ISBN, page 28:

     This process of vertical and horizontal integration has resulted in consolidation of control over basic transformation technologies used in the genetic modification of crops; control over proprietary traits; and control over the elite germplasm resources for many of the world's most important commercial crops.

Antonyms

• vertical integration

Related terms

• horizontal divestiture

Translations

The integrating of identical stages in the production or marketing process

• Japanese: 水平統合 (suichoku-tōgō)