The Strategic Options to Improve a Diversified Company's Overall Performance

Multiple Choice

The strategic options to improve a diversified company's overall performance do NOT include which of the following categories of actions?

A) broadening the company's business scope by making new acquisitions in new industries
B) increasing dividend payments to shareholders and/or repurchasing shares of the company's stock
C) restructuring the company's business lineup with a combination of divestitures and acquisitions to put a whole new face on the company's business makeup
D) pursuing multinational diversification and striving to globalize the operations of several of the company's business units
E) divesting weak-performing businesses and retrenching to a narrower base of business operations