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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Divestiture"”.
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Divestiture governance modes and innovation outcomes
… makes a comparative assessment of two divestiture governance modes, corporate spin-offs and equity carve-outs, that provide a suitable context for the comparison of different levels of post-divestiture unit autonomy. The core theoretical insight from comparing these two divestiture …
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Determinants of divestiture choice in South Africa
… research report investigates the determinants of divestiture choice in South Africa. In addition, it examines how the determinants are influenced by the period studied. There are three periods of interest, being the full sample period, the prefinancial crisis period and the post financial crisis …
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The divestiture of American Telephone & Telegraph : strategic implications
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1985.
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Board structure and market reaction to corporate divestiture decisions
… the differences in the internal governance of divestitures, usually undertaken to reverse a merger activity and increase the firm's focus on its core business, have not been empirically investigated. This study examines the market reaction to divestiture decisions characterized by spin-offs and …
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The determinants of divestitures and divestiture returns in South Africa
This study investigates the determinants of divestitures, the impact of divestitures on shortterm firm value and the determinants of divestiture returns in South Africa. The study is based on a sample of 46 non-financial firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) between 2000 and 2014. …
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A case study of the application of divestiture legislation on three small Québec ports
… throughout Canada's transportation sector. This divestiture policy continues a growing trend among many nation states whereby monetarist policies of privatization, commercialization and deregulation of public goods and services are replacing Keynesian economic policies of active government …
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Essays On Horizontal Divestitures And Product Market Relationships
… first to study the product effect of horizontal divestitures on upstream and downstream firms. This first essay examines product market impact of a sample of horizontal asset sales from 1988 to 2005 on corporate customers, suppliers, and industry rivals. I create a sample of firms that classifies …
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Fundamentals of divestiture as a restructuring method : case study of LG demergers in terms of shareholders value and corporate governance in the context of Korean practice
… global capital market places in regard to the divestitures as one of the corporate restructuring instruments and to confirm the generally acceptable hypothesis that the most of breakup cases driven by the strategic purpose of "focus and concentration" would be justified by the enhancement of …
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The Impact Of Divestitures (Spin-offs And Sell-offs) Announcements On The Share Price Performance Of Parent’s Companies: South African Listed Companies
… on the empirical examination of the impact of divestiture announcements, with a focus on spin-off and sell-off transactions, on the share performance of parent companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in South Africa. The sample of the study for spin-off consisted of 36 …
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INNOVATION IN DECLINING AND DISTRESSED FIRMS
… search, and the roles of intangible asset divestitures and human capital.</p> <p>The dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay proposes a persistence-based framework of organizational search. This framework connects the relative persistence of social and historical relative …
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Modeling Competition and Investment in Liberalized Electricity Markets
… the horizontal breaking up of dominant firms (divestiture) is simulated applying equilibrium techniques (the classical Cournot approach and the Supply Function Equilibrium approach). The later issue of transmission capacity investment is addressed by highlighting the complexity of network …
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By force or by fraud: optimizing U.S. information strategy with deception
… to atrophy. Possible explanations for our MILDEC divestiture range from structural insufficiencies to an ethical framework that emphasizes truth and transparency. Simultaneously, the onset of the Information Age has leveled the playing field between state and non-state actors (NSA) and proved that …
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A case study in the deployment of digital access technologies : DSL vs. cable modems
… and a lack of competitive pressures. The 1982 divestiture of AT&T successfully created competition in the long distance market, however the local access market continued to operate as regulated monopoly. As the primary access point between users and the telecommunications network, the local …
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Essays on the sequencing of divestitures and acquisitions
… corporate reconfiguration activities of divestitures and acquisitions. In particular, this research contributes to theory in strategic management by analyzing how sequential corporate transactions influence firm outcomes and considering how programs of strategic decisions lead to …
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Essays on the restructuring of the electricity industry in the United States
… the U.S. electric utilities. Observations of the divestiture transaction prices make it possible to infer expected future prices of electricity. It is found that under plausible assumptions prices for electricity have to be rather high for the owners of power plants to earn an attractive rate of …
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Assessing the feasibility and prerequisites for establishing a sovereign wealth fund in South Africa
… problems. Revenue from mineral resources or the divestiture of state-owned assets may enable a SWF to stabilise South Africa's economy against foreign shocks, diminish reliance on debt, and furnish a sustainable source of revenue for social and infrastructure development. The 2020 announcement by …
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Privatising Britain's passenger railway : expectations and outcomes of the 'free' market approach
… (BR's) passenger market at the time of its divestiture. Competition was to be introduced both for the market, through franchising, and in the market, by freeing up access to the rail network. This thesis examines the policy adopted to promote competition in the British passenger railway …
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The effect of competition in the healthcare industry
… power increases as a result of the merger, divestitures were required in 21 product markets. Unlike previous literature, I examine two types of markets in which the merging firms were present, markets that involve divestitures and markets that do not. Examining markets involving divestitures …
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Switches and mortar in the Internet's shadow : a study of the effects of technology on competitive strategy for the Internet's landlords
… 1980's competitive carrier decisions, the 1984 divestiture of AT&T, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the development and standardization of new technologies, and the proliferation of the Internet and World Wide Web. This thesis asks the fundamental questions: How has the rapid growth of the …
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