Dead Firms

Causes and Effects of Cross-Border Corporate Insolvency

Miguel M. Torres|Virginia Cathro|Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez

Emerald

This book can be opened with

Hardback

9781786353146

05 July 2016

$170.99

eBook (PDF)

9781786353139

05 July 2016

$170.99

Note on our eBooks and Audiobooks: you can read our eBooks (ePUB or PDF) and listen to audiobooks on the free Emerald Books app on iOS, Android, and desktop. Or read and listen on Emerald's online reader (ePUB eBooks and audiobooks only). To purchase a digital book you will need to create an account if you don’t already have one. After purchasing you will receive instructions on how to get started.

Description
Contents
Reviews
About

Why do firms die? This volume seeks to explore international and cross-disciplinary perspectives, if you like a forensic examination, autopsy or post mortem of 'how and why' companies die. This alternate perspectives flips the focus on survival, as all existing firms are in truth survivors, to consider through the metaphors of death, (with forensic analysis, autopsy, post mortems and crime scene investigations) the lessons 'dead firms' might offer. This book will contribute to the understanding of the development, antecedents, processes and consequences of corporate insolvency around the world. In general lines, insolvency is a state in which the debtor is proven unable to pay corporate debtors. We aim to explore the contemporary causes and effects of corporate cross-border insolvency (CCBI). In the realms of international business, CCBI could be mediated by events experienced during the internationalization of the firm, which may encompass a loss of capital, loss of revenue and loss of credit.

Why Already Internationalised Firms Die? Causes and Effects of Cross-Border Corporate Insolvency - Miguel M. Torres, Virginia Cathro and Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez xi 1. What Kills a Reputation? A Post-Mortem Analysis of Jekyll-Hyde Business Leaders - Melissa S. Baucus and Philip L. Cochran 2. The Peruvian Amazon Company’s Death: The Jungle Devoured Them - Juan Velez-Ocampo, Carolina Herrera-Cano and Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez 3. On the Solvency of Firms: Can Government’s Intervention Reduce External Financing of Firms’ Working Capital in Nigeria? - Uchenna Efobi, Belmondo Tanankem Voufo, Ibukun Beecroft and Peace Okougbo 4. Survival and Death in the Indian Corporate Sector - Suranjali Tandon 5. Public Policy Restricting Free Flow of Capital, Exchange Rate Control and Possible Effects on Cross-Border Insolvency: The Case of Latin American Countries - Loly Aylu Gaitan-Guerrero and Charles Alberto Muller Sanchez 6. El Zancudo Mining Company - Juan Carlos Lopez Diez and Juan Velez-Ocampo 7. To What Extent Do Differences in Legal Systems Affect Cross-Border Insolvency? Evidence from Foreign-Owned Italian Firms - Rosanna Pittiglio, Filippo Reganati and Claudia Tedeschi

Bucking the trend of business literature to be optimistic and its focus on the US, scholars of economics and business management from emerging and industrialized nations analyze cross-border insolvency at different levels of analysis and with different emphases. They cover what kills a reputation: post-mortem analysis of Jekyll-Hyde business leaders, the Peruvian Amazon Company's death: the jungle devoured them, whether government's intervention can reduce external financing of firms' working capital in Nigeria, survival and death in the Indian corporate sectors, public policy restricting free flow of capital, exchange rate control, and possible effects of cross-border insolvency: the case of Latin American countries, the El Zancudo mining company, and the extent to which differences in legal systems affect cross-border insolvency: evidence from foreign-owned Italian firms.
- Annotation

Edited by Miguel M. Torres, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Virginia Cathro, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad Eafit, Medellin, Colombia