Download or read book The Great Divestiture written by Massimo Florio and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the tools of social cost-benefit analysis, Florio assesses the effect of privatization on consumers, taxpayers, firms, shareholders, and workers.
Download or read book Divested written by Ken-Hou Lin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finance is an inescapable part of American life. From how one pursues an education, buys a home, runs a business, or saves for retirement, finance orders the lives of ordinary Americans. And as finance continues to expand, inequality soars. In Divested, Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely demonstrate why widening inequality cannot be understood without examining the rise of big finance. The growth of the financial sector has dramatically transformed the American economy by redistributing resources from workers and families into the hands of owners, executives, and financial professionals. The average American is now divested from a world driven by the maximization of financial profit. Lin and Neely provide systematic evidence to document how the ascendance of finance on Wall Street, Main Street, and among households is a fundamental cause of economic inequality. They argue that finance has reshaped the economy in three important ways. First, the financial sector extracts resources from the economy at large without providing economic benefits to those outside the financial services industry. Second, firms in other economic sectors have become increasingly involved in lending and investing, which weakens the demand for labor and the bargaining power of workers. And third, the escalating consumption of financial products by households shifts risks and uncertainties once shouldered by unions, corporations, and governments onto families. A clear, comprehensive, and convincing account of the forces driving economic inequality in America, Divested warns us that the most damaging consequence of the expanding financial system is not simply recurrent financial crises but a widening social divide between the have and have-nots.
Download or read book The Economics of Divestiture written by Leroy P. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Does Divestiture Matter written by Ahmed Galal and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Institutionalization of Divestitures written by Miriam Flickinger and published by Springer-Verlag. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miriam Flickinger investigates the stock market reaction to divestiture announcements from an institutionally-based perspective. Using meta-analytic procedures, the author extends the present financially dominated understanding of divestiture performance implications. She shows that divestitures are socially embedded when the value of a firm’s divestiture depends on the prevailing institutional logics within the business society.
Download or read book Divestitures and Spin Offs written by Joseph Joy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of M&A has always been complex and nuanced. Corporations encounter their toughest business problems during a divestiture or a merger. At the same time, optimal execution of divestitures can also create high value for the seller as well as the buyer. This book is a collection of leading practices on Divestitures and covers end to end transaction life cycle from readiness through execution including post deal transformation. It contains the synthesis of experiences across a wide array of clients across industries, ranging from $500 million to $100 billion in revenue. Each chapter in this book can stand on its own as an authority on leading practices related to the topic it presents, and together, these chapters provide a comprehensive set of perspectives needed to successfully complete a divestiture. The highlight of the book is valuable real-life examples and references that a business can benefit from, when it is considering, analyzing or implementing a divestiture.
Download or read book The Divestiture Decision written by Stephen L. Hayford and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decision of a firm to divest itself of a portion of its assets has important implications for economic efficiency. These implications have been examined extensively in the financial economics literature. One dimension of that decision that has been largely overlooked in this literature is the legal constraints placed on a firm's board of directors as it contemplates a divestiture transaction. We examine the important role played by the business judgment rule (BJR) and the limitations on its application to divestiture transactions. The BJR is especially important in the context of shareholder suits that may be brought subsequent to a divestiture decision. We also examine the protection and remedies open to creditors, and the much more limited remedies available to a firm's other stakeholders. We find that the BJR gives a firm's board of directors and managers broad latitude in making divestiture decisions. In order to invoke the legal protection implied in the BJR, directors must avoid making hasty or uninformed decisions, or placing their own interests or the interests of the corporation's officers, majority shareholders or controlling shareholders, or others before the interests of the corporation. We find that the rights of debtholders to sue in the event a divestiture adversely affects their economic interests in the firm are greatly limited. Other stakeholders in a divestiture have very limited legal protection.
Download or read book DISENTANGLING VALUE written by VIKRAM NANDA and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Do Governments Divest written by Alfred Schipke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an unprecedented scale, nations at all income levels and across the political spectrum have initiated privatization programs over the past twenty years. In the course of this privatization movement, microeconomic efficiency arguments have become the standard justification for the divestment of public assets. This book presents an alternate view and argues that short-term macroeconomic considerations are often the true motive behind privatization programs. Why Do Government Divest? The Macroeconomics of Privatization is a comprehensive treatment of the macroeconomic issues of privatization. In addition to reviewing topics in economic growth and efficiency, this book explores the fiscal, monetary, balance-of-payments, and employment aspects of privatization. Several diverse case studies illustrate how the pursuit of such short-term political objectives can reduce the benefits of privatization.
Download or read book The economics of defense industry mergers and divestitures written by Ann R. Markusen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bureaucrats in Business written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refer review of this policy book in 'Journal of International Development, vol. 10, 7, 1998. pp.841-855.
Download or read book Diversification Refocusing and Economic Performance written by Constantinos Markides and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the causes and consequences of the "refocusing" phenomenon, where companies have stopped diversifying and begun focusing once more on their core product lines. Coverage includes a discussion of the effects of refocusing on market value, profitability and organizational structure.
Download or read book Firm Divestitures in Different Environmental Contexts written by Rahul Anand and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation examines firm divestitures and their relationship with the business and geographic scope of the firm under buoyant and hostile economic environments. In order to accomplish this task, I have collected information on various kinds of divestitures undertaken by a panel of large European publicly listed firms. The three essays aim to contribute to the broader literature on divestitures as well as the work on the divestitures-diversification relationship (Bergh, 1997) and its contingencies.Essay 1: Downsizing and Downscoping divestituresPast research generally suggests that divestitures are aimed at reducing excessive diversification. This view, however, overlooks the fact that not all divestitures result in refocusing. Indeed, many divestitures are motivated by the existence of over-capacity within the firm. In addition, while prior research has generally found that divestitures improve performance by reducing excessive diversification, more recent research has argued and shown that during an economic downturn, more diversified firms tend to outperform their focused counterparts. Changing economic conditions thus appear as a suitable context in which to study the mechanisms through which divestitures can create value. This paper examines how, under different environmental conditions, firms are more prone to undertake either downscoping (divestitures leading to a reduction in business scope) or downsizing (divestitures that only reduce firm size without affecting business scope) divestitures, as well as the performance impact of either type of divestiture. I find that firms are less likely to undertake downscoping divestitures during an economic downturn whereas they are more likely to undertake downsizing divestitures. This paper provides a boundary condition to the argument that firms primarily divest to reduce diversification and depicts the key role of downsizing divestitures in a firm's corporate strategy.Essay 2: Foreign divestitures and Economic Crisis: Evidence from EuropeThe second chapter focuses on the international dimension of divestitures. Extant work has narrowly defined foreign divestitures as the divestment of a subsidiary. The theoretical mechanisms driving foreign divestitures as well as the effect of these global strategic moves are contingent on the scope and size of the foreign divestiture. Real options theory has shown that foreign divestitures afford greater strategic flexibility to the firm by switching operations. However, we still do not know much about the timing of these options as well as the boundary conditions of this argument. This study examines the conditions under which firms are more inclined to exercise the option to abandon a geographic market as compared to the option to switch operations by merely selling off foreign assets while maintaining a geographic presence. This study contributes to the literature on foreign divestitures and real options perspective.Essay 3: Divestitures, dynamic capabilities, and resource redeploymentThe third essay attempts to shed light on the idea that divestitures provide dynamic capabilities to the firm. Extant research has argued that divestitures provide capabilities to grow and reconfigure the organization. However, not much is known about the conditions in which divestitures are more likely to enable dynamic capabilities. Furthermore, there is very little understanding of the impact of dynamic capabilities provided by divestitures on firm value creation. This study focuses on the cost of assets being sold relative to their market value as a conceptually relevant contingency that impacts the likelihood of firm divestitures. The article puts forth the concept of divestment potential to specify firm-level conditions when divestitures would arguably create greater shareholder value.
Download or read book Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy written by Timothy Folta and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the differences between resource sharing and resource redeployment, and the subsequent effects on firm value creation and industry evolution.
Download or read book Selling Public Enterprises written by Leroy P. Jones and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to use economic logic to develop a quantitative approach to making divestiture decisions.
Download or read book Mergers Sell Offs and Economic Efficiency written by David J. Ravenscraft and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the consolidation and merger of corporations and corporate divestiture in the United States.
Download or read book The Economics of Infrastructure Provisioning written by Arnold Picot and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, experts from Europe, North and South America and Asia examine the complexities of financing, installing, implementing and regulating public infrastructures. Employing a range of methodological approaches, including historical and empirical research, analytical models, theoretical analysis and sector and regional case studies, they consider the economics of infrastructure provisioning by government, through private-public partnerships and privatisation arrangements. After first treating general investment, growth and policy issues, they then offer sector-specific analyses of transportation, energy, telecommunications and water infrastructures.
