Speculative management : stock market power and corporate change / Dan Krier.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Machine generated contents note: 1. speculative management of corporate restructuring : introduction and overview -- 2. Transactional finance in late-twentieth-century America -- 3. Social intermediaries and the wave of internal corporate restructuring in the late twentieth century -- 4. Financial accounting as a social intermediary -- 5. Social intermediation, corporate governance, and financial markets -- 6. rise of corporate restructuring, 1984-1990 -- 7. reign of restructuring, 1991-1993 -- 8. decline and delegitimation of restructuring, 1994-1997.

"In this work, Dan Krier examines the relationship between two phenomena that dominated the economic scene in the late twentieth century: the rising power of financial markets and the restructuring of American industry. He argues that corporate governance was transformed during this period into speculative teams of stock-optioned executives and activist owners. These teams encouraged a vigorous restructuring of American industry through corporate buyouts, takeovers, reengineering, and downsizing."--Jacket.

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