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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Spin-offs"”.
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Do Malaysian spin-offs create value?
… long-run share return performance of Malaysianspin-off firms during the period January 1980 to April 2011. Using daily and monthly data, thestudy examines the performance of spin-off firms against the benchmarks of Malaysian All-Shares indices.The results show that parent firms significantly …
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Business model change in early-stage university spin-offs
… business model change in early-stage university spin-off firms, and how it impacts their performance. This thesis asks: (1) How does the process of business model change unfold in early-stage university spin-offs?, (2) How does business model change link to performance in early-stage university …
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Corporate restructuring : an analysis of spin-offs, sell-offs and equity carve-outs
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, February 1999.
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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
… 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 companies while that of sell-off transactions …
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Internal Capital Markets And Bank Relationship - Evidence From Japanese Corporate Spin-offs.Internal Capital Markets, Investment
… and bank relationship using Japanese corporate spin-offs. The first study analyzes the relation between internal capital markets and banks by examining 137 Japanese corporate spin-offs created between the years 2001 and 2003 (since the establishment of new spin-offs law in 2001). In a univariate …
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An institutional approach to changes in property rights within China in transition: change of property rights and ownership in high-tech spin-offs in the reform era
… of property rights and ownership of high-tech spin-off enterprises in China. This research is micro in approach providing a bird’s - eye view of the evolution of property rights and ownership of Chinese enterprises in the context of transition through multiple case studies of high-tech …
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An empirical test of the relationship between gains/losses on disposal of discontinued operations arising from spin-offs and stock prices based on the extended functional fixation hypothesis
… of discontinued operations (GDDO) when they spin off part of their operations. GDDO reflects the gap between the fair value and the book value of the spun-off operations. However, the fair value is not based on the fair value of the assets classified as held for sale but based on the …
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Three Essays On Executive Compensation
… essay one, we examine CEO compensation following spin-offs. We find that CEOs are rewarded for undertaking a spin-off. Change in compensation for CEOs of spin-off firms following spin-offs is significantly higher than that for matching firms. We also find that the increase in compensation …
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Divestiture governance modes and innovation outcomes
… 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 governance modes is that the parent …
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Analysis and Comparison of the Creation of University Spin-off Startups in Deep Tech between the United States and Japan
… exists a substantial disparity in the number of spin-off companies created from these universities between the United States and Japan. Although Japan is not far behind the United States in terms of patent numbers, it significantly lags behind in successfully commercializing research outcomes …
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Do Academic and Private Entrepreneurs differ? An empirical analysis of the Micro-Foundation of Entrepreneurial Orientation
… affiliated to a matched sample of Academic Spin-offs and Private Start-ups. Building on the Theory of the Planned Behaviour, proposed by Ajzen (1991), I present a model of causal antecedents of Entrepreneurial Orientation on constructs extensively used and validated, both from a theoretical …
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Transitioning international development projects to sustainable businesses : the challenges in commercializing a research project and the engineer-entrepreneurs behind the product
… institutions and the number of research-based spin-off start ups working on commercializing the technologies is significantly less than the number of other research-based spin-offs. This study looks at the characteristics of founders that transition products from research projects to companies, …
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Essays on corporate governance and investor disagreement
… prices, focusing on the context of corporate spin-offs and mergers. I extend theoretical work by Miller (1977) and Jarrow (1980) to show that when investors disagree about the prospects of different businesses and at least some of them are restricted from short-selling, the market price of an …
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The impact of inclusionary housing on property prices in Cape Town
… inclusion in well located areas. These positive spin offs are achievable through strong regulation of the housing market and consistent support for inclusionary principles from local government, property developers and households.
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Board structure and market reaction to corporate divestiture decisions
… to divestiture decisions characterized by spin-offs and equity carve-outs. It further moves to analyze the determinants of such reaction by focusing on firm specific variables, as well as those characterized by the board structure of the divested firm. To our knowledge, this latter aspect …
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Mythology for Christians: An investigation and empirical test of C.G. Jung's proposal that protestant theologians and adherents should think of God as a mythologem.
… for future research. There are also several spin-offs from the thesis, in terms of both concepts and resources. These are reviewed in the final chapter.
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Disruptiver Wandel der Automobilindustrie durch autonome Fahrsysteme - Reaktionsstrategien für etablierte Automobilhersteller
… an explanation of the role of corporate spin-offs, accompanying the technology company acquisition, is being given. This work also argues why autonomous driving systems can be located within the disruptive innovation theory. The research body on disruptive innovation provides different …
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From Lab to Market: Early-Stage Business Models for the Commercialisation of University Technology in the Cleantech Industry
… business models developed by University Spin-Offs (USOs), despite the fact that these are breeding grounds for new technology with commercial potential. Therefore, this thesis examines how USOs develop early-stage business models to commercialise new technology for the cleantech industry. …
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Essays on Spatial Labor Markets and Public Policies
… pecuniary redistribution and direct amenity spin-offs. On the one hand, public housing drives local rents down, while amplifying the spatial concentration of poverty. On the other hand, project- and tenant-based rental assistance enhances the local amenities of subsidized households by …
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Three essays on the influence of information technology on the organization of firms
… on changes in firm size is mixed. While! spin-offs and downsizing suggest a trend towards smaller firms, the recent wave of mergers points to a trend towards larger firm. The paper analyzes US Business Census data to examine trends in firm size empirically and relate them to the use of IT. …
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