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Oliver Klöckner investigates the changes resulting from buy-outs in family businesses. He contrasts the characteristics of family businesses with those of non-family businesses after a buy-out. His theoretical discussion is complemented by an in-depth analysis of 17 bought-out family businesses in Germany.
Private Equity experienced dramatic flutuations in investment activity in line with the turbulences of financial markets in recent years. Claudia Sommer develops a theoretical framework of factors driving private equity investment activity and the resulting performance implications. Using a data set of more than 40,000 European transations between 1990 and 2009 she applies a variety of econometrial approaches and shows how neoclassical aspects, information asymmetries, agency conflicts, and market timing contribute to the dynamics in the private equity market. In a performance analysis of more than 1,300 European private equity funds, she reveals how fund performance is linked to investment activity.
Kay Müller provides insight into the monitoring activities of private equity fund investors and explores their information requirements. He analyzes the reporting of private equity fund managers, reveals information gaps and provides guidance on how to improve investor relations.
Richard K. Lenz analyses how LBOs evolve after the financial investors have exited. Based on three case studies of former LBOs in Germany, he shows that performance decline is often related to the weakening of the former performance-enhancing series of governance instruments.
The term private equity typically includes investments in venture capital or growth investment, as well as late stage, mezzanine, turnaround (distressed), and buyout investments. It typically refers to the asset class of equity securities in companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange. However, private equity funds do in fact make investments in publicly held companies, and some private equity funds are even publicly listed. Chapters in this book cover both private and public company investments, as well as private and publicly listed private equity funds. This Handbook provides a comprehensive picture of the issues surrounding the structure, governance, and performance of pri...
Family firms are commonly assumed to be more long-term oriented than comparable non-family firms. Joern Block analyzes this phenomenon in more detail and investigates whether and under which conditions family firms pursue more long-term oriented strategies than other firms.
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Provides a comprehensive picture of issues dealing with different sources of entrepreneurial finance and different issues with financing entrepreneurs. The Handbook comprises contributions from 48 authors based in 12 different countries.
Stephanie C. Schraml analysiert die Determinanten des Finanzierungsverhaltens in Familienunternehmen, wobei sie insbesondere Ziele und Corporate-Governance-Strukturen der Unternehmen fokussiert.
Annabell Geidner untersucht auf der Basis von Interviews mit CEOs und CFOs von 25 deutschen Buyout-Unternehmen, wie sich Unternehmensführung nach Buyouts von desinvestierten Konzerneinheiten verändern kann und inwiefern wichtige Impulse in Unternehmen gesetzt werden können.