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Chapter 7
Corporate Strategies I
Moses Acquaah, Ph.D.
377 Bryan BuildingPhone: (336) 334-5305
Email: [email protected]
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Lecture Objectives
Define corporate strategy.
Explain the difference between a single-business firm and amultiple-business firm.
Discuss how corporate strategy is related to the other firm
strategies.Explain the corporate strategic directions available to firms.
Describe the various organizational growth strategies.
Discuss the reasons/motives for diversification
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of related &unrelated diversification.
Explain how growth strategies can be implemented.
Describe when organizational stability is an appropriatestrategic choice.
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What is Corporate Strategy?
Those strategies concerned with the broad and
long-term questions of
what business(es) the organization is in or wants to be
in & what it wants to do with those businesses
Task involves
Moves to enter new businesses
Actions to boost combined performance of businesses
Ways to capture synergy among related businesses
Establishing investment priorities & steering
corporate resources into most attractive units
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Single & Multiple Business
Organizations
Single business organizations
Operates primarily in only one industry (e.g., Coca-Cola
Beverage Industry; Wrigley Jr. CompanyChewing
Gum)
Multiple Business Organizations
Operates in more than one industry
Example: PepsiCoSnack Food Industry business
(Frito Lay); & Beverage Industry
Philip Morris CompaniesTobacco Industry; Brewery
Industry (Miller Brewery); & Food Processing Industry
(Kraft General Foods).
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Corporate, Competitive &
Functional Strategies
Corporate strategy establishes the overall
direction that the organization hopes to go.Competitive & functional strategies provide
the means or mechanisms for making surethe organization gets there.
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Possible Corporate Strategic
Directions
(1) Moving the organization ahead --
Organizational Growth
(2) Keeping the organization where it is --
Organizational Stability
(3) Reversing the organizations weaknesses ordecline -- Organizational Renewal
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ORGANIZATIONAL GROWTH
Growth strategy
Involves the attainment of specific growth objectives byincreasing the level of an firms operations
Typical growth objectives for businessesIncrease in sales revenues
Increase in earnings or profits
Other performance measures
Growth objectives of not-for-profit businessesIncreasing clients served or patrons attracted
Broadening the geographic area
Increasing programs offered
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Types of Growth Strategies
Organizational
Growth
Diversification
Related
Unrelated Horizontal
Integration
Vertical
Integration
Backward
Forward
ConcentrationInternational
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Concentration Strategy
A growth strategy where the firm
Concentrates on its primary line of business
Looks for ways to meet its growth objectivesthrough increasing its level of operation in this
primary business
When a single-business organization
pursues growth, it is using the concentration
strategy
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Concentration Strategy
Four concentration strategy options
Products
CustomersCurrent
New
Current New
Product-Market
Exploration
Product
Development
Market
Development
Product/Market
Diversification
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Concentration Strategy
Product-Market Exploration Option
Describes attempts by firm to increase sales of
its current product(s) in its current market(s) bydepending on its functional & competitive
strategies
Product Development Option
Firm create new product for use by its current
market (customers)
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Concentration Strategy
Market Development Option
When a firm sell its current products in newmarkets (additional geographic areas or market
segments not currently served by firm)
Product-Market Diversification Option
Where firm seeks to expand both into new
products & new marketsSingle-business firm becomes a multiple-
business firm since it is now operating in adifferent industry
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Concentration Strategy
Advantage
Organization becomes very good at what it does
DrawbackOrganization is vulnerable to industry and other
external environmental shifts
Concentration strategy is used by both small-sized and large organizations
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Vertical Integration Strategies
An organizations attempt to gain control ofIts inputs (backward integration) -- supplier
Its output (forward integration) -- distributor
Or both inputs and outputPurpose is to (1) reduce resource acquisition costs, &(2) deal with inefficient operations
Vertical IntegrationConsidered a growth strategy because the firms
operations are expanded beyond primary businessMixed empirical results as to whether strategy helps orhurt performance
What is the role of outsourcing in achieving sameobjective as vertical integration?
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Vertical Integration Strategies
Benefits
Reduced purchasing &selling costs
Improved coordinationof functions &capabilities
Protected proprietarytechnology
Costs
Reduced flexibility asfirm is locked into
products & technologyCreate an exit barrierdue to existence ofassets that are hard tosell
Difficulties inintegrating variousoperations
Financial costs ofacquiring or starting up
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Horizontal Integration Strategies
Expanding the firm's operations through combining
with competitors operating in the same industry &
doing the same things
It is an appropriate corporate growth strategy as
long as
It enables the company to meet its growth objectivesIt can be strategically managed to attain a sustainable
competitive advantage
It satisfies legal and regulatory guidelines
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Diversification Strategies
A corporate growth strategy in which a firm
expands its operation by moving into a
different industryMany reasons or motives for diversification
Two major types of diversification
Related (concentric) diversificationUnrelated (conglomerate) diversification
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Why Do Firms Diversify?
To Grow
Increase sales & profitability beyond what firms core
businesses can provide
Managerial self-serving behavior -- compensation
Managerial hubris -- pride or status that come from
managing a large business
To more fully utilize existing resources andcapabilities
Skills in sales & marketing, general management
skills & knowledge, distribution channels, etc.
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Why Do Firms Diversify?
Risk reduction and/or spreading
Escape from unattractive or undesirable industries (e.g., tobacco
& oil companies)
Stability of profit flows (CAPM: systematic vs. unsystematicrisks; shareholders & diversified portfolios)
To make use of surplus cash flows
Large cash balances attract corporate raiders
Use cash balances to avoid hostile takeovers
To build shareholder value
Create synergyamong the businesses of a firm
Make 2 + 2 = 5: The whole should be greater than the sum of
the parts
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Why Do Firms Diversify
Synergy can be obtained in three waysExploiting economies of scale
Exploiting economies of scope
Efficient allocation of capital through the use of portfoliomanagement techniques
Problems that prevent diversified firms fromrealizing synergies
A poor understanding of how diversification activities will fitor be coordinated with existing businesses
Dangers or risks associated with the acquisition of businesses
Problems with the development of internal businesses
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Why Do Firms Diversify?
Diversification is capable of increasing
shareholder value if it passes three tests:
The attractiveness test: The industry must bestructurally attractive or capable of being made
attractive
The cost-of-entry test: The cost of entry must
not capitalize all future profits
The better-off test: Either the new unit must gain
competitive advantage from its link with the
corporation or vice versa (i.e. synergy)
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Related (Concentric) Diversification
Related (Concentric) Diversification
Diversifying into a different industry but onethats related in some ways to the organizations
current operationsSearch for strategic synergy, which is the
performance of the sum of the parts is better thanthe whole
The idea that 2 + 2 = 5
Synergy happens because of the interactions andthe interrelatedness of the combined operationsand the sharing of resources, capabilities, &
distinctive competencies
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Related Diversification
Builds shareholder value by capturing
cross-business strategic fits
Transferring skills & capabilities from onebusiness to another
Sharing facilities or resources to reduce costs
Leveraging the use of common brand name
Combining resources to create new competitive
strengths and capabilities
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Related Diversification
Advantages or Benefits
Opportunities to achieve economies of scale and scope
through skill transfers, lower costs, common brand name,
technology, etc.Opportunities to expand product or service offerings and
preserve unity in businesses
Disadvantages
Complexity and difficulty of coordinating different, but
related businesses (e.g. Philip Morris General Food and
Kraft subsidiaries)
Related diversification is a strategy-driven approachto creating shareholder value
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Unrelated Diversification
Diversifying into completely differentindustry from the firms current operations
Firm move into industries where there is
No strategic fit to be exploited
No meaningful value chain relationships
No unifying strategic theme
E.g.: GE; Walt Disney; Sara Lee
Approach is venture into any business withgood profitability prospects
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Unrelated Diversification
Targets for unrelated diversificationFirms with undervalued assets
Firms in financial distress
Firms with bright growth prospects but limited capital
AdvantagesBusiness risk spread over different industries
Efficient allocation of capital resources
Stability of profits
Enhanced shareholder value
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Unrelated Diversification
Disadvantages
Difficulties of competently managing many
diverse businesses
No strategic fits which can be leveraged intocompetitive advantage
Unrelated diversification is a finance-drivenapproach to creating shareholder value
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Implementing Growth Strategies
Mergers & Acquisitions
A merger is a legal transaction in which two or
more organizations combine through an exchange
of stock, but only one firm actually remain
An acquisition is an outright purchase of an
organization by another
What is a Takeover?
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Implementing Growth Strategies
Internal Development
Organization chooses to expand its operation by
starting a new business from scratch
Choice between mergers-acquisition and internaldevelopment depends on: (See Table 7-4)
The new industrys barriers to entry
Relatedness of new business to the existing one
Speed & development cost associated with each
approach
Risks associated with each approach
Stage of the industry life cycle
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Implementing Growth Strategies
Strategic Partnering
When two or more firms establish a legitimate
relationship by combining their resources, core
competencies, distinctive capabilities for somebusiness purpose
Arrangement can be used to implement any of
the growth strategies
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Related Diversification
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Implementing Growth Strategies
Types of Strategic Partnerships
Joint Venture (JV)
Two or more separate organization form an
independent organization for strategic purposes
Partners usually own equal shares of new venture
Used when partners do not want to be legally joined
Long-Term Contract Legal contract between organizations covering a
specific business purpose
Typically between an organization & its suppliers
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Implementing Growth Strategies
Types of strategic Partnerships (contd)
Strategic Alliance
Two or more firms share resources, capabilities or
competencies to pursue some business purpose
Similar to JVs but no formation of a separate entity
Often pursued in order to
Partners reap benefits of expanded operations
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ORGANIZATIONAL STABILITY
A strategy where the organization maintains
its current size and current level of business
operations
When is stability an appropriate strategy?
Industry is in a period of rapid upheaval with
several key industry & external forces drastically
changing, making future highly uncertain
Industry is facing slow or no growth opportunities
Many small business owners follow stability
strategy indefinitely
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ORGANIZATIONAL STABILITY
When is stability an appropriate strategy?
Organization has just completed a frenzied
period of growth & needs to have some down
time in order for its resources & capabilities to
build up strength again
large firm in large industry at maturity stage of
industry life cycleImplementation of Stability Strategy
Not expanding organizations level of operation
Sh ld b h t t t