Over the past two decades, equity carve-outs (ECOs) have become an increasingly popular form of corporate restructuring in Europe. Individual business segments are separated from the parent conglomerate company, and a minority stake is listed on the stock exchange. The parent company thus...

Kathrin Bösecke analyses the factors that determine the success of business combinations. Based on her analysis of 126 acquisitions and 66 alliances in the European utility industry, she identifies the origin of the participating firms as well as the target country as essential determinants of...

1 Introduction -- 2 Terminology and Related Literature -- 3 Methodological Aspects -- 4 Content Analysis of Literature on Value-Based Supply Chain Management -- 5 Quantifying Value Impacts of Supply chain cost and working capital -- 6 Benchmarking Companies from the Fast Moving Consumer Goods...

Einführung -- Terminologische Grundlegung -- Transaktionsmodell proaktiver und reaktiver Desinvestitionen als Bezugsrahmen -- Theoretische Erklärungsansätze zur Wertsteigerung durch Desinvestitionen -- Ereignisstudien zur Messung des Erfolgs von Desinvestitionen -- Schlussbetrachtung.

Value-Based Management, a widely applied reference for strategic management, aims at maximizing sustainable shareholder value creation. However, respective accounting metrics to measure the firm’s wealth creation, such as residual income and Economic Value Added (EVA®), are distorted by...

Keynotes -- Best Paper -- Searching for Value: Creating Value -- Value Chain Models: Decision-Making -- Value Chain Models: Complexity -- Value Chain Models: Lean Value Chains -- Value Chain Models: Supply and Value Chains -- Real World Implementations