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What does it take to be good parent ? Opening the black-box of value creation in the unrealated multibusiness firm

Olivier, Gottschalg; Meier, Degenhard - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2006

This paper develops and tests new theory about the determinants of value creation in unrelated multibusiness firms from a resource-based perspective. The authors argue that the availability of "headquarter resources", which are at the basis of headquarter services provided to the business units,...

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Competence, specificity and outsourcing: impact on the complexity of the contract

QUELIN, Bertrand; BARTHELEMY, Jerome - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2002

This paper focuses on the link between the three types of specificity and the complexity of outsourcing contracts because specificity is generally considered as the most important transaction cost attribute. It also integrates external uncertainty in the model. External uncertainty is a...

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A comparative Test of the Efficiency, focus and Learning Perspectives of Outsourcing

Frédéric, DALSACE; Nicola C., DRAGONETTI; Karel, COOL - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2003

influencing the outsourcing decision. Some performance implications of this rationale are also suggested and tested. …

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Is the luxury industry really a financier’s dream ?

Kapferer, Jean-Noël; Tabatoni, Olivier - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2010

Although modest in terms of sales, compared to most other sectors, luxury does get a high share of investors', financial analysts’ and media attention. Why would this sector receive a share of attention much bigger than its actual weight? Is it because of its glamourous image, or the...

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Money chasing deals and chasing money - the impact of supply and demand on buyout performance

Gottshalg, Oliver; Zipser, Daniel - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2006

This paper analyzes the impact of differences in supply of and demand for private equity financing on the performance … buyout performance decreases when large volumes of private equity commitments are looking for suit-able acquisition targets … acquisition prices (and thereby transaction performance) depend on the competition by a limited number of private equity fund …

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The performance of private equity funds

Oliver, Gottschalg; Ludovic, Phalippou - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2006

living dead investments. After correcting for sample bias and overstated accounting values, average fund performance changes … from slight over performance to substantial underperformance of -3.83% per year with respect to the S&P 500. Assuming a … stunning growth in the amount allocated to this asset class cannot be attributed to genuinely high past performance. They …

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Do scale alliances with competitors improve product performace? A study of the Aircraft industry, 1949-2000

GARRETTE, Bernard; DUSSAUGE, Pierre; CASTANER, Xavier; … - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2007

This paper investigates the performance impact of undertaking activities through scale alliances with competitors …

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Time-varying incentives in the mutual fund industry

Olivier, Jacque; Tay, Anthony - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2009

In this paper, the authors provide evidence that the convexity of the flow-performance relationship in the mutual fund …/eliminates the degree of convexity of the flow-performance relationship. The effect of economic activity dominates that of market … explains why mutual fund performance varies with the business cycle. …

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Multiple measures, inscription instability and action at a distance: performance measurement practices in the pharmaceutical industry

Dambrin, Claire; Robson, Keith - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2009

In this paper the authors explore performance measurement practices in pharmaceutical companies with particular … instability of ‘performance measurement’ inscriptions. The paper concludes with a discussion of the concept of stability and how …

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