Company valuation using discounted cash flows is based on the valuation of government bonds: it consists of applying the procedure used to value government bonds to the debt and shares of a company. This is easy to understand (sections 1, 2 and 3). But company valuations are often complicated by...

Although virtue ethics has gained a firm presence in the theory and practice of corporate management, humility is not ranked as one the chief virtues in the business world. This is probably due to an incomplete or incorrectly focused view of what it means to be a humble person, why a good...

I add heterogeneous agents and risk-sharing opportunities to a global game of regime change. The novel insight is that when there is a risk-sharing motive, fundamentals drive not only individual behavior, but also select which individuals are more relevant for the likelihood of a crisis because...

Management control systems (MCSs) are used by organizations to try to make sure that their goals are accomplished. MCSs are used to set goals and objectives, to measure accomplishments and to reward or punish people according to results. In this chapter, we argue that the social dynamics...

En las sociedades modernas, pocas instituciones tienen una influencia mayor que las empresas. Este trabajo es una amplia introducción al papel de las empresas como transformadoras de la sociedad, que empieza por su dimensión económica, pero que se refleja también en otras, de carácter...

Empresa A firmó, el 27 de febrero de 2008, un contrato de crédito de 800.000 euros por el que pagaría a Banco B el tipo euríbor más un 1% anual (véase la Figura 1 del caso). La empresa A invertía en plantas de energía solar fotovoltaica. Con este crédito, Empresa A tiene lo que se...

We examine the determinants of institutional investors when deciding on international capital allocation in Venture Capital and Private Equity Limited Partnerships; this is done through a questionnaire addressed to (potential) Limited Partners world-wide. The respondents provide information...

2003 was a good year for the shareholders of the companies in the Euro Stoxx 50: the shareholder value creation of these 50 companies was €150,016 million. The companies that created most value for their shareholder were Siemens (€18,778 million), Telefonica (15,382) and BSCH (12,443). The...

In this paper I review the literature on the antecedents and outcomes of work-family conflict and family-supportive policies. The purpose of this paper is to review and confront two practically divorced literatures and point to the gaps in the literature on work-family conflict and work-family...

Growth expectations and institutional settings are favorable in CEE to establish a vibrant VC/PE market. However, there is lacking supply of risk capital. We address the obstacles for institutional investments in the region via a questionnaire addressed to (potential) Limited Partners worldwide....