| Titre : | Takeover | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | PETER WAINE | | Editeur : | Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc | | Année de publication : | 2000 | | Langues : | Anglais (eng) | | Index. décimale : | 823 Fiction langue anglaise | | Résumé : | This fictionalized account of a takeover attempt works because scriptwriter Walker is a skillful storyteller and because veteran business executive Waine understands how business works. They follow the financial schemes of a colorful but self-absorbed entrepreneur who heads a successful electronics conglomerate and has his eyes on a much smaller family-run enterprise consisting of several ripe-for-picking, strategically mismatched businesses. Set in England, the narrative begins a month before the hostile buyout bid is tendered and then follows developments as things get messy. Waine is a director and cofounder of a British company that helps place up-and-coming executives in directorships at smaller companies in different industry sectors. Waine's mission is to reinvigorate these smaller companies by bringing in new perspectives, and he uses Takeover to show what can happen when company boards are ineffectual. The authors successfully let the story explain the business concepts involved; one need not even be too familiar with business terminology. On the other hand, it is not likely that this story will appeal to those who have no fascination for business transactions. |
Takeover [texte imprimé] / PETER WAINE . - Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2000. Langues : Anglais ( eng) | Index. décimale : | 823 Fiction langue anglaise | | Résumé : | This fictionalized account of a takeover attempt works because scriptwriter Walker is a skillful storyteller and because veteran business executive Waine understands how business works. They follow the financial schemes of a colorful but self-absorbed entrepreneur who heads a successful electronics conglomerate and has his eyes on a much smaller family-run enterprise consisting of several ripe-for-picking, strategically mismatched businesses. Set in England, the narrative begins a month before the hostile buyout bid is tendered and then follows developments as things get messy. Waine is a director and cofounder of a British company that helps place up-and-coming executives in directorships at smaller companies in different industry sectors. Waine's mission is to reinvigorate these smaller companies by bringing in new perspectives, and he uses Takeover to show what can happen when company boards are ineffectual. The authors successfully let the story explain the business concepts involved; one need not even be too familiar with business terminology. On the other hand, it is not likely that this story will appeal to those who have no fascination for business transactions. |
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