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Volume 11, Issue 1
1 January 1983
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Review Article| January 01 1983

Planning for profitability in the 1980S

James K. Malernee
James K. Malernee
Vice president of the Management Analysis Center, Inc., in Palo Alto, California.
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Online ISSN: 2377-7613
Print ISSN: 0094-064X
© MCB UP Limited
1983
Planning Review (1983) 11 (1): 18–44.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054011

Decreasing profitability, plus expectations of rapidly escalating capital and operating costs have forced management to reconsider the trade‐off between growth and company value. Esmark, RCA, GAF Corporation, and U.S. Industries recently confronted this issue and opted for major divestment strategies.

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