This article studies French venture capitalists' screening and valuation process of investments in unquoted companies. Due to information asymmetry problems, data and valuation methods used are very spe-cific. French, American and English practices of ventures capitalists are also compared.

Unsatisfied with the dominatingshareholders' point of view, that appears to betoo limited to build a relevant theory ofcorporate governance, we propose an enlargeddefinition of the value which may be called,the stakeholder value. This definition and itsassociated measure are more suitable for...

In this paper, we study to what extent French LBOs investment policy and operations can explain their overperformance discrepancy. Our empirical study has been carried out on 132 French LBOs between 1989 and 1994. The results show that the abnormal falling of their economic return cannot be...

This paper evaluates the extent that French LBO targets' investment policy and operations can account for their overperformance discrepancy. Our empirical study has been carried out on 132 French LBOs between 1989 and 1994. The results show that the abnormal plunge in economic return cannot be...

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...

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...

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...

Cet article étudie les critères utilisés par les investisseurs en capital français pour sélectionner et évaluer leurs cibles, pour la plupart non cotées. Dans un contexte d'asymétrie informationnelle, l'information et les méthodes d'évaluation utilisées sont très spécifiques. Les...

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...

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...