Managerial Skills and Corporate Strategic Planning

Corporate Finance and Strategic Planning: A Linkage

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Corporate Finance and Strategic Planning: A Linkage

This chapter takes a first step toward closing the gap between traditional corporate finance theory and strategic planning. To put issues in a broad perspective, figure 1.1 summarizes three approaches to strategic planning and their impact on the market value of the firm. This conceptual framework aligns the design of an investment strategy with the value of the firm. Consider the various sourc...

Managerial Optimism and Corporate Finance

Corporate Payout Policy and Managerial Stock Incentives*

We examine how corporate payout policy is affected by managerial stock incentives using data on more than 1100 nonfinancial firms during 1993-97. We find that management share ownership encourages higher payouts by firms with potentially the greatest agency problems—those with low market-to-book ratios and low management stock ownership. We also find that management stock options change the com...

Corporate Restructuring, Downsizing and Managerial Compensation

There is common consensus that managerial compensation is strongly tied to rm size and much less so to nancial performance. One suspects that observed restructuring and downsizing in corporations in recent years may have an eeect on these results. Based on multi-task theoretical considerations, our evidence for German industrial rms shows that pay for rm size elasticities decrease only for larg...