Editing Divestment (section)

{{Short description|Reduction of some kind of asset for an objective or sale of an existing business by a firm}}
{{About|the routine business practice|politically motivated boycott|disinvestment}}
{{Original research|date=February 2021}}
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In [[finance]] and [[economics]], '''divestment''' or '''divestiture''' is the reduction of some kind of [[asset]] for financial, ethical, or political objectives or sale of an existing business by a firm. A divestment is the opposite of an [[investment]]. Divestiture is an adaptive change and adjustment of a company's ownership and business portfolio made to confront with internal and external changes.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Brauer|first=Matthias|date=December 2006|title=What Have We Acquired and What Should We Acquire in Divestiture Research? A Review and Research Agenda|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0149206306292879|journal=Journal of Management|language=en|volume=32|issue=6|pages=751–785|doi=10.1177/0149206306292879|s2cid=144147684 |issn=0149-2063|url-access=subscription}}</ref>