Private Equity and Management Buy-outs [Hardcover]

Mike Wright (Editor), Hans Bruining (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1847207251 | ISBN-13: 978-1847207258 | Publication Date: November 30, 2008

"Private Equity and Management Buy-outs" provides a balanced view of the often polarized private equity debate. This careful and objective analysis of the presence of private equity in buy-out firms reviews the effects of this ownership transfer in terms of firm performance and survival, thus placing private equity in a broader context of implications for value creation. The analysis provides an overview of international trends in private equity and develops a conceptual framework for understanding the heterogeneity of private equity deals. Systematic evidence from large-scale studies of private equity and buy-outs are used to shed light on short- and longer-term economic and social effects. For the first time the broader scope of the key issues now facing private equity and buy-outs are brought together in the contributions herein.The book includes highlights such as: empirical evidence on a special organizational form of private equity; examination of backed buy-outs (perspectives from strategy, finance, HRM, and management accounting); discussion on the level of PE involvement; challenging further debate on economical and social key issues regarding policy implications and future research agenda. Academics and researchers - postgraduate and above - in business schools and schools of economics will find this book enlightening. It will also hold great interest for practitioners in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, general, strategic and financial management, and corporate entrepreneurship and corporate governance.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'A selection of very interesting perspectives on private equity from a collection of leading academics.'- Guy Fraser-Sampson, author of Private Equity as an Asset Class'This book is a timely and important collection of papers on the financial and real effects of private equity. It is crucial that policymakers know the evidence on these transactions, as opposed to the folklore that permeates the popular press. This comprehensive and penetrating collection of studies frames and answers the most important questions policymakers are asking about private equity.'- Donald Siegel, University of California, Riverside, US

About the Author

Edited by Mike Wright, Professor of Financial Studies and Director, Centre for Management Buy-out Research, Nottingham University Business School, UK, Visiting Professor, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Editor, Journal of Management Studies and Hans Bruining, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Product Details

• Hardcover: 513 pages
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub (November 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847207251
• ISBN-13: 978-1847207258
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,378,004 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)