Competitiveness through Corporate Restructuring

This book provides an engaging exploration of how corporate strategy and restructuring can significantly shape the competitiveness of firms. Corporations - firms with more than one business unit - require managers to decide how best to allocate resources to ensure the overall corporation thrives.This book provides a concise yet holistic and dynamic approach to corporate restructuring measures, such as alliances, R&D investments, acquisitions, and the exiting of businesses.Successful corporate restructuring requires balancing several challenges and allows managers to adjust how a corporation relates to external trends, such as globalization, rapid technical development, competitive change, and various stakeholders.Corporate strategy is not a fixed solution to challenges; rather, corporations need to build a multi-relational and flexible restructuring capability.Chapters offer a practical account of the key challenges and tools of corporate strategists and are illustrated with real-life