Associated with neo-liberalism, shareholder value is at the origin of the financialization of the economy and the current financial crisis. Indoctrinated by neoliberal economics, accountants set themselves the objective of ensuring the efficient functioning of financial markets instead of...

The reading of CAC 40 annuals reports on 1998 and 1999, based on a themes’ dictionary connected with corporate governance and shareholder value, shows evolution of financial communication. Five groups of firms which support a different shareholder influence are distinguished.

At the dawn of the 21st century, the appearance of fair value accounting is often presented as, if not a revolution, at least an innovation. The present article on the history of "value" as used in German and French accounting regulations from 1673 to 1914 will show that although valuation at...

This paper investigates the effect of foreign currency (FC) derivative use on shareholder value. Exposures are broken down by currency, by whether the currency is appreciating or depreciating and by whether exposures are symmetric or asymmetric. We find that derivatives are effective in reducing...

Regarding the decline of book-to-market ratio, resulting from a very imperfect recognition of intangible capital, this paper aims to examine the foundation of organization capital measurement. By using the rule of representation (Ijiri, 1975), which indicates a lack of isomorphism between the...

Consequences of network externalities, such as product growth and innovation diffusion, are widely studied in marketing literature. However, there is little empirical research that examines the existence of such network externalities in consumer behavior. When and how do consumers take into...

The main objective of this communication is to propose an analytical framework for the study of brand alliances in using a network perspective. Indeed, the research upon brand alliances has been mainly focused on the impacts of such strategies on the consumer side (Cegarra and Michel, 2001; Abratt...

Alliance is one of the organizational practices that have increased in popularity over the past decade. However, many of this collaborative relations fails. Management literature insist on the fact that organizations need to create specific structures to manage alliance relationships. The aim of...

Parting from a pragmatic constructivist epistemological paradigm, and based on a qualitative methodology, this abductive research explores the strategic management control of inter-organisational relationships (IORs) in civil aerospace. Based on both participating observation and specific case...