Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Part 1: Basic Issues -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Corporate Renewal -- Chapter 2. Understanding Bankruptcy Law and Its Application -- Chapter 3. Failure Prediction -- Chapter 4. Ethical and Legal Considerations in Financial...

The relationship between personal and firm bankruptcy is intuitively understood but has not been previously studied. When a person files a bankruptcy petition they reduce their spending on goods and services sold by companies. Similarly, when a firm files for bankruptcy some employees lose their...

The labor studies literature has for many years accepted the labor hoarding theory. That theory derives from seminal work by Oi (1962), Solow (1964), Miller (1971), and Fair (1985). Those studies argue that as a result of the absolute cost of hiring and training certain workers that even when...