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Regulatory constrained portfolio restructuring: the US department store industry in the 1990s

Regulatory constrained portfolio restructuring: the US department store industry in the 1990s
Regulatory constrained portfolio restructuring: the US department store industry in the 1990s
The US department store industry has undergone a recent round of strategic acquisition-based portfolio restructuring. The author analyses one such acquisition, studying how its geography was restructured in the premerger stage to conform to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) 'fix-it-first' policy and to improve the strategic fit of the transaction. He then investigates evidence, and analyses the effects, of a new era of stricter FTC enforcement, where divestiture may no longer be sufficient in cases of horizontal market overlap. Fundamentally, the author considers the nature of 'real regulation' in action, as rules partially dictate investment decisions.
0308-518X
1279-1304
Wood, Steve
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Wood, Steve
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Wood, Steve (2001) Regulatory constrained portfolio restructuring: the US department store industry in the 1990s. [in special issue: Reflections on the 'institutional turn' in local economic development] Environment and Planning A, 33 (7), 1279-1304. (doi:10.1068/a33208).

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The US department store industry has undergone a recent round of strategic acquisition-based portfolio restructuring. The author analyses one such acquisition, studying how its geography was restructured in the premerger stage to conform to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) 'fix-it-first' policy and to improve the strategic fit of the transaction. He then investigates evidence, and analyses the effects, of a new era of stricter FTC enforcement, where divestiture may no longer be sufficient in cases of horizontal market overlap. Fundamentally, the author considers the nature of 'real regulation' in action, as rules partially dictate investment decisions.

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Published date: 2001

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Local EPrints ID: 178215
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/178215
ISSN: 0308-518X
PURE UUID: 9a8a315a-6259-4997-82f3-921905ed4da2

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