Publisher's Synopsis
Management buy-outs received increasing international attention throughout the 1980s, spreading from the US to the UK and hence to Europe and elsewhere. In the 1990s buyout have important roles to play in reviving troubled companies and in transforming the economies of Central and Eastern Europe. Buy-outs a number of important issues concerning why and how they occur, their impact on enterprise performance, ethical issues, the role of managers as entrepreneurs, their impact on organisational control and industrial relations etc. Academic research in these areas has developed relatively recently and in diverse areas. This volume draws together for the first time, the vartious strands of research on buy-outs. -
