Anthropology goes to Wall Street -- Biographies of hegemony : the culture of smartness and the recruitment and construction of investment bankers -- Wall Street's orientation : exploitation, empowerment, and the politics of hard work -- Wall Street historiographies and the shareholder value...

The role of the hostile activist shareholder has been taken up by a set of hedge funds. Hedge fund activism is characterized by mergers and corporate restructuring, replacement of management and board members, proxy voting, and lobbying of management. These investors target and research...

"This is a book about Washington Consensus capitalism and the controversies its encroachment causes in Japan and Germany. Many people in both those countries share the assumptions dominant today in Britain and America - that managers should be intent solely on creating shareholder value and that...

Chapter 1: Overview of Mergers & Acquisitions -- Chapter 2 Legal Framework -- Chapter 3: Due Diligence -- Chapter 4: Mergers & Acquisitions Financing -- Chapter 5: The Fiduciary Duties -- Chapter 6: Shareholders Actions -- Chapter 7: Proxy Contest, Staggered Boards -- Chapter 8: Shareholders...

1 Einleitung -- 2 Der Shareholder-Value-Ansatz -- 3 Der Stakeholder-Value-Ansatz -- 4 Gründe der Entwicklung differierender Ansätze sowie jüngste Entwicklungen der Rahmenbedingungen im Vergleich USA — Ósterreich -- 5 Synthese beider Ansätze vor dem Hintergrund nationaler Begebenheiten in...