The focus of the symposium is threefold: - present new knowledge on family capitalism in the financial world - discuss issues related to succession problems - analyse the pros and cons of commissioned research and discuss the scientifically-based biography as a genre. Each part of the focus is...

Topics: - Value-creation in corporate takeovers - Strategic bidding and target defensive tactics - Restructuring techniques and their valuation effects - Highly leveraged transactions. LBOs and breakups - Financing takeovers - Takeover initiations and managerial incentives - Mergers, industrial...

This international symposium aims to bring together scholars studying standards, their new content and their new roles, across the substantive areas of: the financial sector (including accountancy), the environment (including climate-related standards), labour, industrial and organizational...