A Firm That Chooses to Move into Unrelated Product Areas

question 83

True/False

A firm that chooses to move into unrelated product areas, by acquiring existing businesses, is likely to find that the strategy requires relatively little integration across businesses and sharing of resources and therefore is would consider a using holding company structure.

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