A diversified company's business units exhibit good resource fit when ________.
A) each business is a cash cow.
B) a company has the resources to adequately support the requirements of its businesses as a group without spreading itself too thin and when individual businesses add to a company's overall resource strengths.
C) each business is sufficiently profitable to generate an attractive return on invested capital.
D) each business unit produces large internal cash flows over and above what is needed to build and maintain the business.
E) the resource requirements of each business exactly match the resources the company has available.
B) a company has the resources to adequately support the requirements of its businesses as a group without spreading itself too thin and when individual businesses add to a company's overall resource strengths.
A diversified company exhibits resource fit when its businesses add to a company's overall mix of resources and capabilities and when the parent company has sufficient resources to support its entire group of businesses without spreading itself too thin.
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