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Currently, the rationale for making an acquisition includes all of the following EXCEPT to:

__________ refers to divestiture, spin-off, or some other means of eliminating businesses that are unrelated to a firm’s core businesses.

Including talent from both the internal and external labor markets increases the likelihood that the firm will be able to form an effective top management team

When the target firm does not solicit the acquiring firm’s bid, it is referred to as a(n):

Which pair of industries would NOT be considered as “related and supporting” under Porter’s diamond model?

Arnold Schwartz, CEO and founder of Schwartz Engineering, has repeatedly rebuffed efforts by other firms in other countries to draw Schwartz Engineering into strategic alliances. Schwartz Engineering has built its highly successful business around proprietary processes invented by Mr. Schwartz in the 1980s. An advantage would be that Schwartz Engineering would gain assistance from those other firms in meeting other countries’ regulatory requirements. Mr. Schwartz is concerned that his firm will be required to share the sources of its competitive advantage with alliance partners. This is a reasonable fear

The positive results associated with increasing international diversification have been shown to:

Criteria such as asset utilization improvements and changes in employee turnover rates are part of the internal business processes perspective of the balanced scorecard

A global corporate-level strategy emphasizes:

When a firm becomes internationally diversified, the initial impact on returns is that they: