Les relations de coopération inter entreprises ont connu un essor important depuis les années 1990. Pourtant, les partenaires et concurrents dans le partage des fruits de leur coopération, peinent à maintenir des relations de long terme. La littérature insiste donc sur la nécessité de...

La fin des années 90 et le début des années 2000 ont été marqués par de fortes progression des goodwill des entreprises non financières débouchant sur un brutal retournement. Nombreux sont ceux qui ont alors mis en cause les marchés financiers, en particulier les grandes firmes et leurs...

Alliance is one of the organizational practices that have increased in popularity over the past decade. However, many of this collaborative relations fails. Management literature insist on the fact that organizations need to create specific structures to manage alliance relationships. The aim of...

Les objectifs de cet article sont (1) de reformuler le modèle traditionnel de la rente du goodwill de façon à le rendre cohérent avec les modèles standards de la théorie financière; (2) de montrer son équivalence avec les méthodes d'actualisation des flux sous certaines hypothèses; (3)...

Nous analysons dans ces travaux de recherche l'évolution des stratégies des entreprises et des territoires vers des logiques fonctionnelles comme conséquence de l'importance de plus en plus grande des enjeux environnementaux dans la création et l'évaluation de la valeur produite et...

Empire-building by managers implies that they use a lower effective discount rate in making investment decisions. We use actual investment decisions to measure the gap between the manager's effective discount rate and the market rate. Our empirical work is based on panel data for 193 Canadian...

Is real investment fully determined by fundamentals or is it sometimes affected by stock market misvaluation? We introduce three new tests that: measure the reaction of investment to sales shocks for firms that may be overvalued; use Fama-MacBeth regressions to determine whether overinvestment...

In recent years, there has been a slow but steady change in ownership structures and corporate governance in Japan. As a result of economic stagnation, relations between companies characterised by cross-shareholdings and the main-bank system have become less rigid and institutional investors...

We analyze foreigners' and domestic institutional investors' positions in U.S. equities. Controlling for many factors, we uncover a common preference for large firms and firms that are diversified internationally. The domestic preference for internationally diversified firms implies that...

This study examines managerial disciplining in poorly performing firms using large panels for Belgian, French, German and UK firms. We consider the monitoring role of large blockholders, the market for share blocks, creditors, and non-executive directors. Board restructuring is correlated to...