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Determinants of acquisition and failure : stylized facts and lessons for empirical studies
Köke, F. Jens - 2001
, we find that the industry distribution is significantly different for failure and acquisitions. This calls for some kind …
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Listed Family Firms in Germany (German)
Achleitner, Ann‐Kristin - 2009
Family firms are an important phenomenon of the German capital market. We analyse the broadest market segment of the German Stock Exchange, the CDAX, for the years 1998 to 2008. According to a founding-family definition almost half of all CDAX-listed non-financial firms in Germany can be...
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Shareholder Activism in Germany : Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Schaefer, Henry - 2019
Germany is the largest economy in Europe and yet there has been very little research in the area of shareholder activism. Main objective of this research paper is to discuss shareholder activism for DAX 30 companies. We provide the most recent empirical evidence that formal activism in Germany...
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The German Law of and Experience with the Supervisory Board
Hopt, Klaus J. - 2017
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The German Law of and Experience with the Supervisory Board
Hopt, Klaus J. - 2017
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Comparative Corporate Governance
Fleckner, Andreas Martin - 2015
The business corporation is one of the greatest organizational inventions. But it creates risks for both shareholders and third parties. To mitigate these risks, legislators, judges, and corporate lawyers have tried to learn from experiences in other jurisdictions and adapt their regulatory...
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Entrepreneurial human capital, complementary assets, and takeover probability
Braun, Thorsten V.; Krispin, Sebastian; Lehmann, Erik - 2009
mergers and acquisitions. In this paper we show that a knowledge-based firm's probability of being a takeover target is … rights ; mergers & acquisitions … influenced by whether relevant specific human capital aimed for in acquisitions is directly accumulated within a specific firm or …
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Innovationsverhalten in Familienunternehmen
Hülsbeck, Marcel; Lehmann, Erik; Weiß, Dominik; … - 2011
Familienunternehmen gelten in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung als besonders innovativ und als "Hidden Champions" der deutschen Wirtschaft. In jüngster Zeit widmen sich Forscher vermehrt der Überprüfung dieser These und kommen zu diametral unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen. Einerseits wird...
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Entrepreneurial human capital, complementary assets, and takeover probability
Braun, Thorsten V.; Krispin, Sebastian; Lehmann, Erik - 2010
-manager. -- ownership structure ; property rights ; mergers & acquisitions …Although acquisitions of high tech entrepreneurial firms are of great popularity, the limited empirical evidence shows … that these acquisitions often lead to dismal results in that a large number of acquired inventors leave the company after …
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Revitalisation through restructuring? The effects of union mergers
Kirsch, Anja - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 22 (2015) 2, pp. 116-141
Trade union mergers are regarded as a revitalisation strategy and are often associated with the goal of increasing … organisational power. But little is known about how mergers really affect the unions involved. This paper argues that the effects of …
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