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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Divestment"”.
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Life Cycle, Divestment and Corporate Governance
Divestment activities have become a popular trend in recent years. This thesis is a pioneering UK study examining divestitures from three points of view: shareholder wealth; corporate governance, and the life cycle. While the growth factor is important for most firms, most previous divestment …
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An Examination of Variables Associated With Divestment Decisions
… from a consideration of factors underlying the divestment process. This study draws from both wealth maximization theory and agency theory to obtain variables considered useful in modeling the divestment process. Logit analysis is used to model the decision process firms undertake when making …
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Exploring emerging market multinational enterprises' divestment from emerging markets
… there is comparatively little research on their divestment from these markets. Additionally, most studies on foreign divestment focus on multinational enterprises from developed markets rather than emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs), leaving a gap in the literature on EMNEs' …
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The effect of corporate divestment on shareholder wealth: the UK experience
… We find a degree of financial distress prior to divestment to be inversely related to abnormal return - a result consistent with market approval for such "distress" sales. Relative size of divested part to parent is also shown to be positively related to abnormal returns. Price declaration seems …
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The determinants of divestment from coal energy: the case of South Africa
… the drivers and barriers that are influencing divestment behaviour from coal? and ii) what is the extent of divestment from coal by key players in the sector? The study investigated these questions using qualitative data obtained from interviews with experts. The findings point out several …
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Three essays on corporate responses to social movement activism
… to anti-apartheid activists’ pressures for divestment from South Africa in the late 1980s. This dissertation contributes to the academic literature in the following ways. Essays 1 and 2 are the first examinations of defamation as a plausible strategy in firms “defensive repertoire” when they …
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Three Essays in Asset Management: Ethical and Investment Exclusions
… a survey of industry professionals’ views on divestments. Respondents consider negative portfolio screenings most useful for attracting funds from ethically concerned investors and are least in favour of using them for risk management purposes. Furthermore, professionals express the lowest …
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Identifying Correlates in Anti-Semitic Incidents on College Campuses in the U.S.
… organizations, pro-Pease organizations, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) support and resolutions, as well as the campus location in relation to hate groups in the state. The significance of these factors being present on campuses is examined utilizing information from the Southern Poverty …
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Dwelling in the districts: the participation and perspectives of mapping traditional communities on Pine Ridge
… worldviews. The thesis concludes that a divestment of power to local communities is necessary for truly sustainable development, and further that the knowledge and perceptions of the traditional Lakota elders needs to be validated on their own terms in order to decolonize the relationship …
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Building community assets through individual development accounts : growing a strategic network in Lawrence, Massachusetts
… have been able to overcome challenges of divestment and immigration, to invest in assets that provide financial security. This thesis identifies metrics of success in the IDA program at CommunityWorks through the perspective of graduates of the program in an effort to identify and …
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Pathways for Investor Climate Action: Trade-offs and Synergies under the Banner of Net Zero
… engagement, flexible capital provision, and divestment. We interpret these emerging effects as synergies or trade offs between making the wave and riding the wave and chart the course for future research to understand the interactive effects of investor climate actions.
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An integrated analytical framework : guidelines for commercial real estate investment management
… Development Management, Asset Management to Divestment. The motivation of this thesis responds to the need that small-scale Private Equity Real Estate ("PERE") firms have for efficient, comprehensive, and streamlined tools to manage investment assets. There are two purposes of this thesis. …
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Our city, what ruins
… of the architect; especially in landscapes of divestment and subtraction. This thesis explores spatial and socio economic tactics relating to rebranding of the body, community wealth building and emancipatory infrastructures in the form of drawings, models, slides, legal documents, literature, …
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Bobcat traps and other theories
… decline of rural America. Deindustrialization, divestment, and economic crises have left rural spaces underdeveloped and mired in economic stagnancy; spaces that survive as little else but ruins. In the contemporary socio-political moment, rurality has come roaring back into popular discourse as …
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Empirical Studies in International Entrepreneurial Finance
… and institutional factors on private equity divestment strategies of IPOs and acquisitions in the emerging markets. The data indicate that PE fund managers have a higher probability of successful exits in countries with better business and legal environments. We also find that PE investors …
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Indigenous art in urban renewal: The emergence and development of artistic communities in midwestern post-industrial cities
… of cities that had been lost due to decades of divestment.</p>
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Privatization of buildings and land : the case of El Salvador
… elimination of fiscal drain functions; b) the divestment of real assets to generate revenues for the budget; and c) the provision of land to squatters. The case studies show that, the current GOES privatization process does not account for the opportunity cost of holding SOEs whose space has …
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Sustainable supply chains enabled by mergers & acquisitions: motivations, strategic considerations, and integration outcomes
… and corporate development officers exploring divestment opportunities might utilise this operations-sustainability enabled M&A perspective to inform due diligence and supply chain ESG risk management.
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