Corporate Divestiture Management Organizational Techniques for Proactive Divestiture Decision-Making /

• Main Author: Sewing, Jan-Hendrik (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2010.
• Subjects: Management.; Finance.; Public finance.; Economics.; Public Economics.; Finance, general.

Corporate divestitures can be a strategic tool for value creation when approached proactively. Despite their high managerial relevance, however, divestiture decisions are often made on a relatively unstructured and irrational basis, lacking routines and professional management. The entire field is v...

Table of Contents:

• Foundations for understanding the divestiture phenomenon under analysis
• Prescriptive design of divestiture decision-making
• Behavioral and institutional factors influencing divesture decisions in practice
• Consolidation of conceptual and theoretical elements into a framework
• Empirical study in diversified DAX-30 companies
• Findings from the empirical study and refinement of the framework
• Conclusion.