Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases, 6th Edition by Pearson

CHAPTER 10

Organizing to Implement Corporate Diversification

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

1. 10.1 Describe the multidivisional, or M-form, organizational structure and the roles of the board of direc-tors, institutional investors, the senior executive, corporate staff, division general managers, and shared activity managers in making the M-form structure work.
2. 10.2 Describe how three management control processes—measuring divisional performance, allocating cor-porate capital, and transferring intermediate products—are used to help implement a corporate diversi-fication strategy.
3. 10.3 Describe the role of management compensation in helping to implement a corporate diversification strategy.

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