Value-based Management: Context and Application - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471899860 ISBN 13: 9780471899860

Publisher: Wiley, 2000

Synopsis

The business management trend of Value-Based Management (VBM) and the related area of Shareholder Value are attracting considerable interest. Modern finance theory suggests that the primary goal of a firm should be to maximise shareholder wealth and increasingly firms are targeting the creation of value for shareholders as their principal objective. Advocates of this theory suggest that this is not only good for shareholders but also for the company as it encourages investment. This volume provides a critical look at the success and failure of VBM; its development, the principles on which it is based, and the primary techniques that it involves. The authors, Arnold and Davies, examine the is sues arising at all levels of this highly topical management technique and provide a valuable next step for managers and financial professionals who have read the introductory guides and wish to go a step further.

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From the Back Cover:

Context and Application Value-Based Management Edited by Glen Arnold and Matt Davies Over the past ten years hundreds of leading companies worldwide have adopted the principles of value-based management (VBM), an approach to corporate strategy and business organisation in which the primary objective is always shareholder wealth maximisation. As VBM has become more widespread the idea of shareholder value has become integral to business. Consultancies have prospered by selling prescriptions for developing a value-oriented firm and managers thought to be excellent in generating shareholder value are held in high esteem and command huge salaries. This book draws on empirical evidence to demonstrate the success of VBM ideas as well as highlighting many of the hidden questions, doubts and difficulties. It examines the validity of some of the underlying assumptions of VBM and tackles many of the key technical issues. This book provides a timely assessment of the theory and practice of VBM as it grows to maturity.

About the Author:

Glen Arnold is a lecturer in Finance and Value-based Strategy at Aston Business School, Birmingham. He is the author of the best-selling UK-based corporate finance textbook Corporate Financial Management, Glen has considerable experience teaching, researching and publishing in the areas of investment, corporate finance and strategy. Matt Davies is a Director of ATC Limited, a company which specialises in providing financial training and consultancy. Before that he spent six years as a member of the Finance and Accounting Group at Aston Business School, where his speciality was shareholder value and value-based management. Matt is coauthor of Shareholder Value, which was published by the Financial Times in 1997. He is currently researching the use of value-based management within top UK companies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0471899860
• ISBN 13: 9780471899860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Arnold Glen, Davies Matt