Corporate Strategy for a Diversified or Multibusiness Enterprise

question 36

Multiple Choice

Corporate strategy for a diversified or multibusiness enterprise:

• A) is orchestrated by senior corporate executives and focuses on how to create a competitive advantage in each specific line-of-business the total enterprise is in.
• B) concerns how best to allocate resources across the departments of each line of business the company is in.
• C) is orchestrated by senior corporate executives and centers around the kinds of initiatives the company uses to establish business positions in different industries and efforts to boost the combined performance of the set of businesses the company has diversified into and the means of capturing cross-business synergies and turning them into competitive advantages.
• D) deals chiefly with what the strategic intent of each of its business units should be.
• E) involves how functional strategies should be aligned with business strategies in each of the various lines of business the company is in.

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