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Managing the multi-business company : strategic issues for diversified groups / edited by Michael Goold and Kathleen Sommers Luchs.

Contributor(s): Goold, Michael | Luchs, Kathleen Sommers.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Routledge, 1995Description: 459 p. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 041513269X (m) (pbk).Subject(s): Conglomerate corporations -- Management | Conglomerate corporations -- PlanningDDC classification: 658.046
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: Economic justification for the multibusiness firm -- Transaction costs and market failure / Oliver Williamson -- Towards an economic theory of the multiproduct firm / David J. Teece -- Resource-based theory / Margaret A. Peteraf -- Part II: Resource allocation and portfolio composition -- Portfolio planning / Robert Grant -- Value-based planning / Bernard C. Reimann -- Related corporate portfolios / David J. Collis -- Creating value in acquisitions / Philippe Haspeslagh and David Jemison -- Part III: The quest for synergy -- Interrelationships across businesses / Michael Porter -- The core competence of the corporation / C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel -- Achieving synergies / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- Part IV: Diversification, performance and restructuring -- Research on diversification / Vasudevan Ramanujam and P. Rajan Varadarajan -- From competitive advantage to corporate strategy / Michael E. Porter -- Eclipse of the public corporation / Michael C. Jensen -- Part V: How corporate parents influence their businesses -- The functions of headquarters in the multibusiness firm / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. -- The value of the parent company / Andrew Campbell, Michael Goold and Marcus Alexander -- Dominant logic / C. K. Prahalad and Richard A. Bettis -- Part VI: Developing a corporate strategy -- Developing a corporate strategy / Michael Goold, Andrew Campbell and Marcus Alexander.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

All multibusiness companies need to be able to justify their ownership of their multiple businesses. The corporate-level strategy must show how and why the corporate parent adds value to its business. Classic strategic issues which are addressed in this book include the allocation of resources between businesses, the creation of synergy through linkages amongst the businesses and the choices faced when creating a corporate portfolio. The selection of readings chosen, including writings by leading business theorists such as Michael Porter, Alfred Chandler, Michael Jenkins, Rosabeth Moss Kanter and C. K. Prahalad, have been organised around the major issues outlined above. In the first section, the readings concern the basic justification for the existence of multibusiness companies. The next two sections concentrate much more on advice for the managers of these companies about how to handle difficult strategic issues. Section 4 offers empirical evidence on how diversified companies have performe

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I: Economic justification for the multibusiness firm -- Transaction costs and market failure / Oliver Williamson -- Towards an economic theory of the multiproduct firm / David J. Teece -- Resource-based theory / Margaret A. Peteraf -- Part II: Resource allocation and portfolio composition -- Portfolio planning / Robert Grant -- Value-based planning / Bernard C. Reimann -- Related corporate portfolios / David J. Collis -- Creating value in acquisitions / Philippe Haspeslagh and David Jemison -- Part III: The quest for synergy -- Interrelationships across businesses / Michael Porter -- The core competence of the corporation / C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel -- Achieving synergies / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- Part IV: Diversification, performance and restructuring -- Research on diversification / Vasudevan Ramanujam and P. Rajan Varadarajan -- From competitive advantage to corporate strategy / Michael E. Porter -- Eclipse of the public corporation / Michael C. Jensen -- Part V: How corporate parents influence their businesses -- The functions of headquarters in the multibusiness firm / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. -- The value of the parent company / Andrew Campbell, Michael Goold and Marcus Alexander -- Dominant logic / C. K. Prahalad and Richard A. Bettis -- Part VI: Developing a corporate strategy -- Developing a corporate strategy / Michael Goold, Andrew Campbell and Marcus Alexander.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Economic Justification for the Multibusiness Firm
  • 2 Resource Allocation and Portfolio Composition
  • 3 The Quest for Synergy
  • 4 Diversification, Performance and Restructuring
  • 5 How Corporate Parents Influence Their Business
  • 6 Developing A Corporate Strategy