Download or read book Managing Business Portfolios Effectively written by Matthias Krühler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation fundamentally investigates the ability and explanatory power of the parenting advantage concept to effectively manage business portfolios. It contributes to a largely ignored field of corporate strategy research: namely, the parenting role and value‐added strategies of corporate headquarters.