Corporate Restructuring: Investigating the Relationship between Divestitures and Firm Performance

This study examines various firm performance determinants of divestment using proportion methods across a large sample of 111 UK firms from 2008 through to 2012, which represents a much more recent period of study than currently available. Performance determinants include financial, strategy and cor...

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Main Author: Delgosha, Layla
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2012
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/25790/
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Summary:This study examines various firm performance determinants of divestment using proportion methods across a large sample of 111 UK firms from 2008 through to 2012, which represents a much more recent period of study than currently available. Performance determinants include financial, strategy and corporate governance indicators. The study adopts panel data IV regression techniques, instrumenting lags of accounting performance within the model, allowing the analysis of time arraying influences.