Works
- Strategies and Styles: The Role of the Centre in Managing Diversified Corporations, Basil Blackwell, Oxford and New York (x and 374 pages), 1987
- Corporate-Level Strategy: Creating Value in the Multibusiness Company, Wiley, New York, 1994
- How corporate parents add value to the stand-alone performance of their businesses, Business Strategy Review 5(4), 33 to 56, 1994
- Corporate strategy: the quest for parenting advantage, Harvard Business Review 73(2), March to April 1995, 1995
- Designing effective organizations: how to create structured networks, Wiley, June 2002 (ISBN 978-0-7879-6064-3), 368 pages, 2002
- The size, structure, and performance of corporate headquarters, Strategic Management Journal 28(4), 383 to 405, 2007
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Parenting styles and parenting advantage
Ideas
Corporate management styles. Centers of diversified companies shape their businesses through planning influence and control influence; on these two dimensions Goold and Campbell define eight management styles, among them a Holding Company style in which the center is largely passive, and strategic planning, strategic control, and financial control are the main ones and much the most common among the 16 British companies they studied. Caveat: Only short passages of the book were read, not the whole of it.
Parenting advantage. Parents more often destroy than add value to their businesses' stand-alone performance, and they add value only where a real opportunity, suitable parenting skills, and feel for the business's success factors coincide. Caveat: Four firms chosen as successes; Feldman (2020) gave the first large-sample estimate.
In this section, “read” means read by the Organizational Structures series: where a line says a work, or part of one, was not read, the series did not read it.