Please Note Location of Nearest Exit

See Vignola Leonard , Strategic Divestment (New York: American Management Association, 1974), chapter 1.

Vignola , op. cit., chapter 2.

Hayes R. H. , “New Emphasis on Divestment Opportunities,” Harvard Business Review (July-August 1972), pp. 55–64.

Lovejoy F. A. , Divestment for Profit (Financial Executives Research Foundation, 1971).

See Lovejoy , op. cit.

Hilton P. , “Divestiture: The Strategic Move on the Corporate Chessboard,” Management Review (March 1972), pp. 16–19.

Gilmour S. C. , The Divestment Decision Process, unpublished DBA dissertation, Harvard University, 1973.

Gilmour , op. cit., chapter 9. This point is also made by Hilton P. , Planning Corporate Growth and Diversification (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970).

A description of the PIMS data is found in Buzzell Gale Sultan , “Market Share—A Key to Profitability,” Harvard Business Review (January-February 1975).

Some related useful suggestions are proposed in Gilmour , op. cit., and Lovejoy , op. cit.