This paper introduces the volume on Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy, which is devoted to exploring a relatively new justification for how multi-business firms create value having flexibility to internally redistribute non-financial resources across their businesses. We clarify how a...

It has been long understood that value creation by corporate strategists is determined by their ability to effectively deploy resources across multiple business units. Recently, scholarly attention has been dominated by studies of "synergy", or sharing resources across businesses. However, a...

Front Cover -- Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Examining Resource Redeployment in Multi-Business Firms -- Introduction -- Multi-Business Firms Are Alive and Well -- Corporate Flexibility through Resource Redeployment --...

Examining resource redeployment in multi-business firms -- Resource redeployment in business ecosystems -- Product turnover: simultaneous product market entry and exit -- Resource redeployment through exit and entry: threats of substitution as inducements -- Incumbent responses to an entrant...