Managerial capital and firm types: findings from private bond contracts
Bouvier, Laurent and Nisar, T.M. (2012) Managerial capital and firm types: findings from private bond contracts. Applied Economics Letters, 20, (6), 592-595. (doi:10.1080/13504851.2012.720009).
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Field experiments have variously discovered that modern management practices enhance productivity, but not all firms adopt such practices. In this study, we examine private bond contracts used by the public house operators to explore if such variations are due to the differences in the types of the firms. Bond covenants make management actions in areas such as acquisitions and disposals contingent on meeting specified performance targets. We find that managed firms that provide greater flexibility in managing their operations are more responsive to these constraints than tenanted firms. The significant variations in the propensity of the firms to respond to covenant restrictions suggest that firms vary in their capacity to take different management actions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 1350-4851 (print) 1466-4291 (electronic) |
| Keywords: | firm types, managerial capital, bond covenants, acquisitions, disposals |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business and Law |
| Item ID: | 343129 |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2012 15:41 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2012 15:41 |
| Contributors: | Bouvier, Laurent (Author) Nisar, T.M. (Author) |
| Date: | 13 September 2012 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/343129 |
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