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Are Good Managers Required for a Separation of Ownership and Control?

Cheffins, Brian R - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2003

is delegated to a cohort of full?time executives, there needs to be “good” managers. In Britain, however, ownership …

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Productive Systems and the Structuring Role of Economic and Social Theories

Wilkinson, Frank - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2002

The institutions of productive systems are structured by mutual interests and relative power. Securing mutually beneficial cooperation in production requires resolving distributional differences. These objectives are secured in liberal economic theory by the working of markets which mediate the...

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The corporate-fund manager interface: objectives, information and valuation

Roberts, John; Sanderson, Paul; Hendry, John; Barker, … - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2004

Fund managers are the primary investment decision-makers in the stock market, and corporate executives are their … findings from interview research conducted with chief financial officers (CFOs) and investor relations managers from FTSE 100 … companies and with chief investment officers (CIOs) and fund managers (FMs) from large institutional investors. Of particular …

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The Impact on U.K. Acquirers of Domestic, Cross-border, Public and Private Acquisitions

Conn, Robert L; Cosh, Andy; Guest, Paul M; Hughes, Alan - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2003

We examine the announcement and post-acquisition share returns of 4,000 acquisitions by U.K. public firms during 1984-1998. We include acquisitions of domestic and cross-border targets, and of both publicly quoted and privately held targets. In acquisitions of domestic public targets, abnormal...

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Applying 'Comply-or-Explain': Conformance with Codes of Corporate Governance in the UK and Germany

Seidl, David; Sanderson, Paul; Roberts, John - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2009

application very little is known about the ways in which managers apply the principle – in particular, how they make use of the …

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The Mechanism of Voting Efficiency

Schouten, M.C. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010

In the wake of the financial crisis, shareholders are increasingly relied upon to monitor directors. But while much has been written about directors' flawed judgments, remarkably little is known about shareholders' ability to make accurate judgments. What determines whether shareholders make the...

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Institutional Restructuring in the Japanese Economy 1985-1996

Matsuura, Kazuyoshi; Pollitt, Michael; Takada, Ryoji; … - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 1999

The question we seek to address is: what effect has economic turbulence since 1985 had on three of the institutional foundations of post-war Japanese industrial success? First, we examine the Japanese 'main bank' system whereby a 'main' bank is involved in a special type of long-term...

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External networks and geographic clustering as sources of MNE advantages: Foreign and indigenous professional service firms in Central London

Nachum, Lilach; Keeble, David - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001

This study combines the theories of international business and management with network theory in order to examines the networking activities of foreign affiliates. It focuses on a specific kind of network, which is taking place between firms based in geographic proximity. A comparative analysis...

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The book publishing industry in Japan and the UK: corporate philosohpy/objectives, behaviour and market structure

Miyamato, Dai; Whittaker, Hugh - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2005

A number of prominent publishers in the UK and US have become parts of globalized media groups. In Japan, by contrast, they have neither been absorbed into media groups nor become globalized businesses. Based on interviews of major players in the Japanese publishing industry as well as annual...

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The return of the guild? Network relations in historical pespective

Deakin, Simon - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2006

Prior to the industrial revolution, the predominant form of economic organization in western Europe and north America was the guild. Guilds were network forms, loose associations of independent producers, with strong local and regional identities, in which cooperation and competition were...

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