Subject(s): Strategy & General Management, Keyword(s): consolidation index, industry consolidation, industry structure, critical success factors, banking industry, utilities industry JEL Classification: L10

While markets internationalize and at the same time consolidate, companies have to ask themselves if they can develop to one of the market leaders in this broader international market. To give guidance to this question, the business brief introduces the concept of the consolidation index as a framework for developing and validating strategies in this regard and discusses the results of the consolidation index for the European banking and utilities industry.