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Book SynopsisConsidering the recent impact of the capital market on corporate strategy, this text analyzes, through argument and supportive case studies, how pressures from the capital bull market of the 1990s and bear market of the early 2000s, have reshaped management action and calculation in large, publicly quoted US and UK corporations.
Beginning with the dissatisfaction with classical strategy and its limited engagement with the processes of financialization, the book moves on to cover three detailed company case studies (General Electric, Ford and GlaxoSmithKline) which use long run financial data and analysis of company and industry narratives to illustrate and explore key themes. The book emphasizes the importance of company and industry narrative, while also analyzing long term financial results, and helps to explain the limits of management action and the burden of expectations placed on corporate governance.
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'Financialization and Strategy will be of considerable interest to scholars, managers and policy makers concerned with effects of capital markets on corporate strategy.' -Michael Power,London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
'Financialization and Strategy will be of considerable interest to scholars, managers and policy makers concerned with effects of capital markets on corporate strategy.' -Michael Power,London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Table of Contents Part 1: What Corporate Management Has Become 1. Introduction 2. Classical Strategy 3. The Intrusion of the Capital Market 4. Keeping it Going 5. Better Governance? Part 2: Cases 6. Introduction to the Cases 7. General Electric 8. Ford Motor Company 9. GlaxoSmithKline 10. Synthesis
