Towards numerical taxonomy of busines enterprises

This paper is based in part on Appendix B of Friedhelm Goronzy, “A Multivariate Analysis of Selected Variables of Manufacturing Business Enterprises”, Unpublished Dissertation, Louisiana State University, 1968. The writer acknowledges the support of this work through a dissertation‐year fellowship granted by the Graduate School of Louisiana State University. This research was supervised by Professor Herbert G. Hicks. Parts of this article were presented at the Numerical Taxomony Colloquium at the University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, September 1–4, 1968.