Consequences of Corporate Refocusing

Markides, C. C. (1992). Consequences of Corporate Refocusing: Ex Ante Evidence. Academy of Management Journal, 35(2), 398-412.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1992

DOI

10.2307/256378

Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/256378

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military_strategic_studies

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Primes

• Sacrifice Periphery To Defend Core
  • In business strategy it is divesting non-core units to concentrate capital on the core franchise, and deliberately cannibalizing declining products to fund successors.

    This sourceFinds that divesting non-core units to refocus on the core business created market value for over-diversified firms, evidence for deliberate periphery-shedding to strengthen the core.

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