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The drivers and implications of business divestiture : an application and extension of prior findings

Decker, Carolin (contributor); Mellewigt, Thomas (contributor) - 2007

The purpose of this study is to extend the current understanding of business divestiture by investigating its potential for triggering strategic reorientation. A divestiture involving strategic reorientation is here denoted as a strategic business exit, otherwise it is a status quopreserving...

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Dissynergies of mergers among local banks

Bloch, Thomas (contributor) - 2008

draw on a proprietary data set with detailed financials of all 457 regional savings banks in Germany, which have been …

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Foreign and domestic takeovers in Germany : cherry-picking and lemon-grabbing

Weche-Gelübcke, John P. - 2012

This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most … between foreign and domestic targets. -- Foreign ownership ; Germany ; acquisition ; firm performance ; services ; inward FDI …

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Foreign and domestic takeovers in Germany : first comparative evidence on the post-acquisition target performance using new data

Weche, John P. - 2012

This study provides the first comparative evidence of foreign and domestic acquisitions in Germany. A propensity score … Germany which find significant productivity improvements and no changes in terms of employment. These findings are of … particular interest to Germany as one of the most important FDI in ow destinations worldwide. They contribute to the foreign …

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German Corporate Law Reform's Impact on Publicly Listed Companies' Performance Through Changes in Ownership Concentration

Pakamore, Mantas - 2011

Shleifer and Vishny (1997) theories of optimal ownership dispersion level, our findings indicate that Germany has already …

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Listed Family Firms in Germany (German)

Achleitner, Ann‐Kristin - 2009

CDAX-listed non-financial firms in Germany can be classified as family firms. They also represent about one third of all …

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The Success of Bank Mergers Revisited : An Assessment Based on a Matching Strategy

Behr, Andreas - 2016

The question of whether or not mergers and acquisitions have helped to enhance banks' efficiency and profitability has not yet been conclusively resolved in the literature. We argue that this is partly due to the severe methodological problems involved. In this study, we analyze the effect of...

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The determinants of the German corporate governance rating

Drobetz, Wolfgang; Gugler, Klaus; Hirschvogl, Simone - 2004

This paper analyzes the determinants of the German corporate governance rating recently developed by Drobetz, Schillhofer, and Zimmermann (2004). We find a non- linear relationship between ownership concentration and the quality of firmlevel corporate governance as measured by the rating. Firms...

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Determinants of the Adoption and Performance Effects of Value-Based Management Systems in Germany

Brück, Christian - 2017

This paper examines the economic determinants that lead German firms to adopt value-based management and control systems (VBMSs). Further, we investigate whether firms' operating performance improves after VBMS adoption. Using a hand-collected data set of German listed firms covering 1,575...

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Corporate Governance, Firms’ Performance and Earnings Management : Evidence from German Listed Companies

Hussain, Mostaq M. - 2015

This paper examines the effect of Corporate Governance (CG) on firms' performance and earnings management. Data has been collected from German companies listed on Frankfurt stock exchange. Board characteristics are used as the proxy for it, while performance is measured using the return on...

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