Resource Redeployment and Divestiture as Strategic Alternatives

The authors are grateful to Organization Science Senior Editor Gary Dushnitsky and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions on this paper. The authors also thank Gautam Ahuja, Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Olivier Chatain, Jerker Denrell, Sendil Ethiraj, Jeffrey Furman, Alfonso Gambardella, Dimitrija Kalanoski, Xavier Martin, José Mata, and the seminar participants at HEC Lausanne, HEC Paris, Tilburg University, the 2019 Theoretical Organization Modeling Conference, the 2019 Vienna Conference on Strategy, Organizational Design, and Innovation, the Strategic Management Review Meeting Conference on Corporate Renewal, the 2019 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, and the 2019 Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting for valuable comments. The authors are also grateful to James Harris, the lead integration manager at Google, for informative discussions about business exit. The authors contributed equally and are listed alphabetically.