The determinants of corporate divestment: evidence from a panel of UK firms

By M. Haynes, S. Thompson, Mike Wright. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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1. Karen P. Y. Lai
2. Steffen Kinkel
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2. Dariusz Wójcik
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2. Steffen Kinkel
3. Dariusz Wójcik
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Citations in the corpus

• Trends in production relocation and backshoring activities (2012, background): “Also, divestment and backshoring activities are expected to be positively related to the size of the parent firm, since larger firms tend to possess more potentially closable production locations (Haynes et al., 2003) and find it easier to decide for withdrawal, as they might give less weight to ind”
• Integrating Finance into Global Production Networks (2014, methodology): “based on corporate interviews and reports evaluating closure options, PIKE (2006) shows how the shareholder value ideology contributed to the closure of the Vaux brewery in Sunderland, UK.”
• Spin-Offs, Divestitures, and Conglomerate Investment (2007, unknown): “Haynes, Thompson, and Wright (2003) argue that large firms and firms with large market shares can benefit more from the focus provided by a divestiture.”