Efficiently allocating resources or restructuring a target firm’s
assets and placing them under rigorous financial controls are
two ways to accomplish successful unrelated diversification.
Firms using the unrelated diversification strategy focus on
creating financial economies to generate value.
• Diversification is sometimes pursued for value-neutral reasons.
Incentives from tax and antitrust government policies,
performance disappointments, or uncertainties about future
cash flow are examples of value-neutral reasons that firms
may choose to become more diversified.
• Managerial motives to diversify (including to increase compensation)
can lead to overdiversification and a subsequent
reduction in a firm’s ability to create value. Evidence suggests,
however, that certainly the majority of top-level executives
seek to be good stewards of the firm’s assets and to
avoid diversifying the firm in ways and amounts that destroy
value.
• Managers need to pay attention to their firm’s internal organization
and its external environment when making decisions
about the optimum level of diversification for their company.
Of course, internal resources are important determinants
of the direction that diversification should take. However,
conditions in the firm’s external environment may facilitate
additional levels of diversification, as might unexpected
threats from competitors
Efficiently allocating resources or restructuring a target firm’s
assets and placing them under rigorous financial controls are
two ways to accomplish successful unrelated diversification.
Firms using the unrelated diversification strategy focus on
creating financial economies to generate value.
• Diversification is sometimes pursued for value-neutral reasons.
Incentives from tax and antitrust government policies,
performance disappointments, or uncertainties about future
cash flow are examples of value-neutral reasons that firms
may choose to become more diversified.
• Managerial motives to diversify (including to increase compensation)
can lead to overdiversification and a subsequent
reduction in a firm’s ability to create value. Evidence suggests,
however, that certainly the majority of top-level executives
seek to be good stewards of the firm’s assets and to
avoid diversifying the firm in ways and amounts that destroy
value.
• Managers need to pay attention to their firm’s internal organization
and its external environment when making decisions
about the optimum level of diversification for their company.
Of course, internal resources are important determinants
of the direction that diversification should take. However,
conditions in the firm’s external environment may facilitate
additional levels of diversification, as might unexpected
threats from competitors
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