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- Corporate advantage for a multi-business firm arises from an efficient combination of superior firm resources, dominant market positions in profitable industries, and an organization that leverages synergies across multiple businesses.
- Firm resources range on a continuum between specialized, such as deep consumer insights, and generic, like the ability to distribute products and services to remote retailers.
- A corporation must deploy its resources in appropriate industries that value them and finally synergize its resources across industries and businesses.
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Corporate advantage for a multi-business firm arises out of an efficient combination of a superior firm resources, b dominant market positions in profitable industries and c an organization that leverages synergies across multiple businesses.
Firm resources critical for firm survival and profitability in their chosen industries will provide specific businesses with competitive advantage. Corporate advantage is more than a collection of competitive advantages. It is imperative for firms to leverage these resources effectively to achieve dominant market positions in their respective industries.
Additionally, the multi-business firms should be able to organize these resources in a manner that maximizes synergies for the entire corporation. This fit between firm resources, market positions and coordination mechanisms are the bedrocks of corporate advantage. As Collins and Montgomery described in their classic 1998 Harvard Business Review paper, the firm resources could be
on a continuum between specialized through generic. For some corporations, deep consumer insights about a specific consumer segment might be a specialized resource. While for some other firms it could be generic resources like the ability to distribute their products and services to the remotest retailers in the continent. It is not just sufficient to possess these resources. The corporation must be able to deploy these resources in appropriate
industries that value these resources and generate competitive advantage in those businesses as well. Finally, the corporation must synergize its resources across industries and businesses.