ABSTRACT

Written by leading experts in the field of business, finance, law and economics, this edited volume brings together the latest thoughts and developments on turnaround management and business rescue from an academic, judiciary and turnaround/insolvency practitioner perspective.

Turnaround Management and Bankruptcy presents different viewpoints on turnarounds and business rescue in Europe. Presenting a state-of-the-art review of failure research in finance, such as on bankruptcy prediction, causes of decline, or distressed asset valuation. It also presents the latest insights from turnaround management research as well as giving a contemporary insight into law debates on insolvency legislation reform, cross-border judicial issues, bankruptcy decision-making by judges and competition policy in distressed economies. Finally, the book provides a regional and sector perspective on how the current crisis affects Europe, its government policies and industry performance.

In this way, the volume presents a modern, interdisciplinary and scholarly overview of the latest insights, issues and debates in turnaround management and business rescue, developing a European perspective in an attempt to redress the predominance of an American orientation in the academic literature. It aims at a wider audience interested in turnarounds and failure, such as faculty and students in the fields of law, business, economics, accountancy, finance, strategic management, and marketing, but also at judges, insolvency practitioners, lawyers, accountants and turnaround professionals, as well as the EU and government officials, staff of trade unions and employer’s associations.

part II|82 pages

Business Failure

part III|93 pages

Turnaround Management

chapter 7|20 pages

Turnaround Planning

Insights From Evolutionary Approaches to the Theory of the Firm

chapter 8|22 pages

Turnaround Strategies

Practical Insights From a 47-Year Career

chapter 10|19 pages

Human Considerations in Turnaround Management

A Practitioner’s View

chapter 11|22 pages

The Executioner’s Dilemma

Explaining Role Stress by Ethical Conflict Among Those Who Carry Out a Downsizing Event

part IV|106 pages

Legal Issues and Ethics

part V|37 pages

Industry Perspectives

chapter 18|16 pages

Turning SMEs Around

On Breaking and Making Organizational Paths

part VI|53 pages

Cases and Game

chapter 19|23 pages

Back to the Future

The General Motors Restructuring Plan

chapter 21|8 pages

Turnaround Workout Game

To Rescue the Uganda Hotel-Casino Group, or Not?