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| Author: | Froud, J. |
| Title: | Shareholder value and financialization: consultancy promises, management moves |
| Journal: | Economy and Society
2000 : FEB, VOL. 29:1, p. 80-110 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMIC CONDITIONS SHAREHOLDER VALUE CONSULTANTS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | In the pages of the daily financial press, 'shareholder value' is a loose rhetoric. For business consultants who sell financial metrics and implementation, shareholder value is also a product and a promise that purposive management action will be rewarded. This paper begins by considering the consultant's promise and the more guarded academic responses. It then presents empirics on micro performance and the meso limits to shareholder value and argues that most corporate managements cannot easily deliver what consultants promise and the capital markets demand. |
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