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The core theoretical insight from examining reconfiguration programs is that firms proactively free up resources in anticipation of future expansion or strategic redirection efforts, and that the additional resources available to firms after retrenchment can positively affect the extent to which they are able to implement strategy. The first study explores firms use of sequential divestitures and acquisitions to achieve corporate differentiation. This chapter finds that firms use corporate transactions to move further away from their competitors, resulting in a positioning that is more different from both the firms that were their major competitors before the transactions and the firms that the focal firm most closely competes with after the transactions. Thus, corporate renewal through internal redeployment of resources by divestiture is pursued by firms seeking to expand into new areas and differentiate themselves from competitors. 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