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Assignment Name: Hitt/Ireland/Hoskisson, Strategic Management: Concepts: Competitiveness and Globalization, 9e, Chapter
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Certain regulatory changes (such as antitrust regulation and tax laws) create incentives or disincentives for
diversification that ________.
a. reduce value
c. are value-neutral
d. create value
The term "conglomerates" refers to firms using the ________ diversification strategy.
a. related constrained
b. global
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c. related linked
d. unrelated
3 The drawbacks to transferring competencies by moving key people into new management positions include all
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b. related constrained
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c. dominant business
d. single business
d. restructure the weaker firm to mirror the structure of the more successful firm.
b. the fewer the linkages between the businesses within the portfolio owned by the firm.
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c. the wider the variation in the portfolio of businesses owned by the firm.
d. the more links there are among the businesses owned by an organization.
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Among the value-neutral incentives to diversify, some come from the firm's external environment while others are
internal to the firm. External incentives to diversify include:
a. the fact that other firms in an industry are diversifying.
b. pressure from stockholders who are demanding that the firm diversify.
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b. vertical integration.
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c. unrelated diversification.
d. horizontal acquisition.
10 Which of the following reasons for diversification is most likely to increase the firm's value?
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