Legitimacy Needs as Drivers of Business Exit

• Main Author: Decker, Carolin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2008.
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Organization.; Planning.; Business and Management.

A diversified firm’s withdrawal from a business unit, i.e. business exit, is a significant phenomenon in management practice. Although divestitures are highly relevant in practice, the acquisition of business units attracts much more attention in strategic management research. Carolin Decker develop...

Table of Contents:

• Literature Review
• Theory and Hypotheses
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion.