strengthened commitment to R&D while others experience decreases in both. Multiple theories have been offered to explain acquisitions and their outcomes, but few have received strong empirical support. This paper describes a multiple rater, multiple-case study of acquisitions that had highly favourable outcomes and others that experienced highly unfavourable outcomes. All twelve of the high performing acquisitions studied were found to exhibit the dual characteristics offiriendlinessduring acquisition
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Academicians : Rs.1000 Industrialists : Rs.1500 Research Scholars : Rs. 800 Students : Rs. 500 Participants from Other Countries : $50 Selected papers will be published in an edited volume after the conference in the Punjab journal of Business Studies with ISSN No. 0973-4465. Further the paper will be accepted on the condition that it should not be published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Other papers will be published in
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Mergers And Acquisitions: Shareholder Wealth Effects Mergers and acquisition otherwise identified as M& A defines an aspect of corporate management strategy, as well as corporate finance that deal with the selling, the buying and dividing of the various companies. It also involves combining the various companies and similarly oriented identities which could assist a given enterprise to grow rapidly within its sector of origin, or even a new field or location even without necessarily creating
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“WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIVERSIFICATION AND PERFORMANCE, PARTICULARLY IN EMERGING ECONOMIES? WHAT ARE THE FACTORS WHICH ARE RELEVANT FOR SETTING THE CONTENTS OF THAT RELATIONSHIP?” By João de Almeida Frazão Caro de Sousa Master Thesis Submitted to ESADE Business School in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in International Management ESADE Business School May 2012 Master of Science in International Management – ESADE Business School
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versions of the trade-off theory of capital structure. When corporations decide on the use of debt finance, they are reallocating some expected future cash flows away from equity claimants in exchange for cash up front. The factors that drive this decision remain elusive despite a vast theoretical literature and decades of empirical tests. This stems in part from the fact that many of the empirical studies are aimed at providing support for a particular theory. The amount of evidence is large, and so
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role of ICT in secondary school classrooms be increased in the study of mathematics and language? What is the role of the early childhood educator in teacher social behaviours in children? Are children over-protected in early childhood education environments? Economics and Business What factors are behind stock market fluctuations and how do they impact? Which have the most significant impact, and why? (suitable for Banking and Finance). How do government tariffs impact on imported goods? What are
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5430/ijfr.v5n1p107 Accepted: October 31, 2013 Online Published: January 10, 2014 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijfr.v5n1p107 Abstract The study examined the relationship between shareholders’ wealth and debt-equity mix of quoted companies in Nigeria. The study was based on a panel data set from 1997 to 2011 comprising sixty non – financial companies. The study specified two panel regression models. Two measures of shareholders’ wealth: Return on Equity (ROE) and Earnings per Share (EPS) were taken
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Scholtens received his Ph.D. at the Universtiy of Amsterdam. Since 1999 he has been working at the Department of Finance of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research particularly looks into the interaction between financial institutions and corporate social responsibility. He has published in, among others, Ecological Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Finance Letters, Journal of Investing, Sustainable Development, and Journal of Business Ethics. Lammertjan Dam is a Ph.D.
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Setting the pace and getting started in NGO Corporate governance. An Assessment of corporate governance for Non Governmental Organizations in Zimbabwe By Lasford Flackson lasyflackson@gmail.com .Tel:+263773931949 Table of contents Introduction Chapter one An overview of corporate governance The evolution of governance Development of corporate governance Approaches to corporate governance Chapter two Adaptation and adoption of corporate governance Ngo sector in Zimbabwe Requirements
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Metallgesellschaft AG: A Case Study Page 1 of 7 Metallgesellschaft AG: A Case Study By John Digenan, Dan Felson, Robert Kelly and Ann Wiemert In December, 1993, Metallgescellschaft AG revealed publicly that its "Energy Group" was responsible for losses of approximately $1.5 billion, due mainly to cash-flow problems resulting from large oil forward contracts it had written. In a lucid discussion of this infamous derivatives debacle, Digenan, Felson, Kelly and Wiemart explore the trading strategies
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