Corporate Restructuring: Managing the Change Process from Within - Hardcover

Donaldson, Gordon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0875843395 ISBN 13: 9780875843391

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, 1994

Synopsis

Reviews the business issues of the seventies and eighties, describes actual cases of corporate reorganization, and offers practical advice on managing change

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Reviews

In the 1980s, the business world saw a number of gargantuan mergers and acquisitions featuring "white knights," convoluted "poison pill" and "PAC-Man" defenses and "barbarians at the gates" that transformed business. Donaldson ( Strategy of Financial Mobility ) meticulously explores resultant restructuring in this superb study. The author, an emeritus professor at Harvard Business School, views the last decade's changes in corporate restructuring in the context of the "evolution of financial strategy and structure since World War II." He examines the economic structure of the 1970s and 1980s, investor discontent, voluntary and involuntary corporate restructuring, board revolts and fundamental changes in managerial operations. Donaldson's extensive use of statistical data, case studies (General Mills, Burlington Northern and CPC International) offers a useful framework for his consideration of implications for corporations of the '90s
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875843395
• ISBN 13: 9780875843391
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240