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Does Capital Market Myopia Affect Plant Productivity? Evidence from Going Private Transactions

Dittmar, Amy - 2010

One influential criticism of the stock market oriented U.S. financial system is that its excessive focus on short term quarterly earnings forces public firms to behave in a myopic manner. We hypothesize that if capital markets pressure listed firms to be myopic in a way that impacts efficiency,...

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Vertical competition between manufacturers and retailers and upstream incentives to innovate and differentiate

Venturini, Luciano - 2006

a further mechanism at work due to retailers' delisting decisions. Giventhat retailers have to make room for their store … brands at the point of sale, they have to readjust their assortments delisting some manufacturer brands. Retailers would like … delisting strong brands given that the retailer's margin on these brands is lower. The problem is that strong brands can …

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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices

Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008

Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …

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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA

Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007

effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …

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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies

Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009

Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...

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15.997 Advanced Corporate Risk Management, Spring 2007

Parsons, John E.; Obizhaeva, Anna - 2007

Opportunity for group study by graduate students on current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. From the course home page: Course Description This is a course on how corporations make use of the insights and tools of risk management. Most courses on derivatives,...

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Japan's Economy: The Idiosyncratic Recovery Continues

Patrick, Hugh - 2007

challenges that involve divestitures, mergers, and acquisitions. Activist shareholders are playing an increasingly important yet …

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Privatisation in Australia and the western economies in the 1990's: Distributional and political effects of accounting and financial reporting

Gowland, D; Aiken, M - 2009

This article captures the effects of 1990's privatization two decades later and challenges whether the expected outcomes of Government debt reduction, a change in share ownership, reduced union and government intervention, and improved efficiency have been achieved. It also addresses whether the...

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Strategies in Financial Services, the Shareholders and the System Is Bigger and Broader Better?

Walter, Ingo - 2002

, however measured, and the range of activities conducted by them. Is size positively related to total returns to shareholders …? If so, does this involve gains in efficiency or transfers of wealth to shareholders from other constituencies, or maybe … shareholders and customers, or can it work against their interests in ways that may ultimately impede shareholder value as well …

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The valuation accuracy of the price-earnings and price-book benchmark valuation methods

Cheng, C. S. Agnes; McNamara, Ray - 2000

This paper evaluates the valuation accuracy of the price-earnings (P/E), the price-book (P/B) and a combined price-earnings and price-book (P/E-P/B) benchmark valuation methods. Performance of the benchmark valuation methods relies on the definition of comparable firms. In this paper, comparable...

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