Beyond Competitive Advantage

INDEX

Note: page numbers followed by f refer to figures.

acquisitions

aligning with corporate theory, 26, 62–63, 161–162

auctions and, 50, 51, 55

capital markets’ responses to, 49, 60–62

control trap in integration, 110–111

forcing of changes at Disney, 25

General Dynamics’s leveraging of sell option, 59–60

Kraft’s acquisition of Cadbury, 73–74

maintaining employee motivation, 109–110

market response to AT&T’s, 39, 40

Mittal’s corporate theory and, 46, 47

rationale for pursuing, 108–110

reliance on markets versus choosing integration, 115–116

restructuring of Monsanto using, 66–67

results of General Mills’, 55–57

Akerlof, George, 77–78

alliances, 127, 128, 130–131, 133

Anders, William, 59

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