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Shareholder value

Shareholder value is a business term, sometimes phrased as shareholder value maximization. The term expresses the idea that the primary goal for a business is to increase the wealth of its shareholders (owners) by paying dividends and/or causing the company's stock price to increase. It became a popular concept in business management during the 1990s and…

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related to Further reading · 97
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related to history · 26
Shareholder value → Adam Smith's, Alfred Marshall, An Introduction, Canning, Economics, Edinburgh, Fortune, General Electric, General Motors, Hamilton's, In, Indian Head Mills, Industrial Revolution, It, Merchandize, Nations, Preinreich, Principles, Robert Hamilton, Scotland
related to Loss of growth and productivity · 12
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related to Legal criticisms · 10
Shareholder value → America, And, Corporations, In, It, Otherwise, The, They, This, Yet
related to Short-term strategy · 10
Shareholder value → Corporations, Given, However, In, Oftentimes, One, Speculating, The, They, This
related to Agency theory and shareholder value · 9
Shareholder value → Agency, An, By, CEO, In, Lastly, Shareholder, The, Theorists
related to Value-based management · 9
Shareholder value → Although, As, CEO's, Examples, MFV, Studies, The, Under, VBM
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Shareholder value → business term, dumbest idea in the world, growth of financialization, most common framework for measuring a company's success and financial viability, mystification surrounding its legal validity, part of its capitalization which is equity as opposed to long-term debt, reliance on the process of assessing stock
related to Executive compensation · 7
Shareholder value → As, C-suite, CEOs, In, Share, The, This
related to Criticism · 5
Shareholder value → For, It, Shareholder, The, While

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Shareholder valueis amystification surrounding its legal validity0.90text
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Shareholder valueis agrowth of financialization0.90text
Shareholder valueis amost common framework for measuring a company's success and financial viability0.90text
the cost of capital conceptinstance ofThe more specific concept that planned actions by management and the returns to shareholders should outperform certain benchmarks0.80text
customersinstance ofShareholder value coupled with short-termism has also been criticized as lowering the overall rate of economic growth due to reduced business capital accumulation.It can also di…0.80text
Ho believe that the shift of management attitude towards treating corporations as investments has led to the decline of the corporation as a social entityinstance ofCritics0.80text
and allows corporate management to make decisions that may be against the interests of the corporation's social stakeholders or even longevity of the corporation itself.Economic criticismsFailure of accurate modelling within neoclassical economicsThe failure of the corporation to readily fit within the neo-classical economic model which dominates contemporary economics academiainstance ofCritics0.80text
policy is a frequently-targeted flaw by criticsinstance ofCritics0.80text

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