ISSN:
1467-8616
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Economics
Notes:
Corporate parents have the potential to add value to their businesses through their influence on the stand-alone performance of the businesses, but for a variety of reasons, including what we call the 10% versus 100% paradox, they more often destroy value instead. This article examines four companies, Dover, BTR, Emerson and RTZ, which succeed in creating value through stand-alone parenting influence, and draws out the conditions necessary to do so. These are that (1) there should be a genuine parenting opportunity to improve the performance of the business, (2) the parent should have skills, management processes, and other characteristics that are suitable for realising the opportunity, and (3) the parent should have sufficient feel for the critical success factors in the business to avoid inadvertently destroying value through inappropriate influences.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8616.1994.tb00082.x
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