This paper investigates the financial characteristics and changes in performance of French companies involved in a leveraged buy-out. The empirical study covers a sample of 161 MBOs in France from 1988 to 1994. The acquired firms outperform their counterparts in the same sector of activity...

Les acquisitions de sociétés à l'aide d'un holding endetté, ou leverage buy-outs (LBO), ont connu un essor remarquable aux Etats-Unis (depuis les années 1970) et en Europe (à partir des années 1980). Ces opérations permettent aux acquéreurs (capital-investisseurs, personnes...

The differences between the information used for the pre-investment valuation and the valuation methods used by venture capital investors in five countries (US, UK, France, Belgium and Holland) are empirically studied. The analysis is based on postal questionnaire surveys of representative...

Unsatisfied with the dominating shareholders'view, that we find unfitted to build a relevant theory of corporate governance, we propose an enlarged definition of the value which may be called, the stakeholder value. This definition and the associated measure are supposed to be more fitted to the...

Unsatisfied with the dominating shareholders'view, that we find unfitted to build a relevant theory of corporate governance, we propose an enlarged definition of the value which may be called, the stakeholder value. This definition and the associated measure are supposed to be more fitted to the...

Financial theory, resource-based theory and deal flow generation are used to explain syndication practices among venture capitalists in Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. Similar motives drive syndication in the five countries:the desire to share risk and increase portfolio...

Using two complementary theoretical perspectives, we develop hypotheses regarding the determinants of the return required by venture capitalists and test them on a sample of over 200 venture capital companies (VCCs) located in five countries. Consistent with resource based theory, we find that...

Après avoir mis en évidence les particularités du capital-investissement, relativement à la finance d'entreprise traditionnelle, et procédé à son analyse dans le cadre théorique de la finance organisationnelle, cet article s'intéresse successivement au comportement des investisseurs...

Cet article a pour ambition de construire une réflexion théorique portant sur les enjeux éthiques des formules d'actionnariat des dirigeants. Une croissance économique soutenue et la performance des marchés boursiers ont, en effet, conduit de nombreuses firmes à introduire des plans...

Cet article présente une synthèse des travaux théoriques et empiriques consacrés aux stock-options. Il est consacré dans un premier temps aux avantages et inconvénients présumés de ces formules de rémunérations, au sujet des liens entre les plans d'options sur actions et la performance...