Designing Organizations: Strategy, Structure, and Process at the Business Unit and Enterprise Levels, 3rd Edition

Chapter 8

Multibusiness Strategy and Organization

The previous chapters have featured the various strategies and organizations of the single-business model. These next chapters focus on multiprofit center strategies and organizations. Like the single-business functional organization model, the multibusiness model has several various strategies and organizations as well. This chapter describes the standard portfolio strategies and organizations for related diversification and conglomerates and compares these to the single-business functional organization. Chapter 9 then looks at the mixed model, which is growing in popularity. Chapter 10 lays out a key part of the multibusiness portfolio strategy, how to add value to the businesses. Chapter 11 ...