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Strategic Business Units Definition

The Strategic Business Unit (SBU) is defined as the basic organisational unit for which it is meaningful to formulate a separate competitive strategy (Grant, 2002). Typically the SBU is a business providing a single product or a number of closely related products that serve a well defined product-market combination and compete with a well defined set of competitors.

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Strategic Business Units References

  • Eisenstat, R., Foote N., Galbraith, J. and Miller, D. (2001) Beyond the Business Unit, The Mckinsey Quarterly, Vol. 1 (1), pp 54-63.
  • Grant, R. M. (2002) Contemporary Strategy Analysis; Concepts, Techniques, Applications. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.
  • Hall, W. K. (1978) SBUs: Hot, New Topic in the Management of Diversification, Business Horizons, Vol. 21 (1), pp. 17-25.
  • Hansen, O. D. and Peytz, M. (1991) Global organisation: Designing the corporate centre, The McKinsey Quarterly, Vol. 3

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