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How much due diligence should acquires undertake before finalizing corporate acquisitions. Based on advice of consultants, management gurus, and strategy textbooks, acquirers cannot be too diligent. All those sources concurred in warning acquirers: "Watch out!" This presentation of our study with Jeff ...

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This video continues the discussion of implications of resource redeployability, the real option for a firm to withdraw its resources from one business and redeploy them to another business. In the related article published in the Strategic Management Journal, I focus on what determines the propensity ...

This video of our study with Timothy B. Folta continues the discussion of what determines value of a multi-business, or a multi-product, firm. The response to this question is of great importance to managers, investors, and researchers. Although two types of economies of scope, synergy and redeployability, ...

What determines value of a multi-business firm? The response to this question is of great importance to managers, investors, and researchers. Previous explanations focused on relatedness between a firm's businesses, which enables the firm to transfer resources between them. This video offers a new response. ...