Cultural, Structural and Strategic Change in Management Buyouts

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. The Magic in Management Buyouts

   • Sebastian Green, Dean F. Berry

   Pages 1-48

3. The Stone Story

   • Sebastian Green, Dean F. Berry

   Pages 49-75

4. The Metsec Story

   • Sebastian Green, Dean F. Berry

   Pages 77-94

5. The Jacoa Story

   • Sebastian Green, Dean F. Berry

   Pages 95-116

6. The Trend Control Story

   • Sebastian Green, Dean F. Berry

   Pages 117-134

7. The March Concrete Story

   • Sebastian Green, Dean F. Berry

   Pages 135-148

8. The John Collier Story

   • Sebastian Green, Dean F. Berry

   Pages 149-175

9. Ownership, Managerial Motivation and Cultural Change

   • Sebastian Green, Dean F. Berry

   Pages 177-199

10. Structure, Strategy and the MBO Life Cycle

    • Sebastian Green, Dean F. Berry

    Pages 201-226

11. Back Matter

    Pages 227-241

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The separation of ownership and control in the modern corporation has given rise to extensive theoretical and practical speculation about the economic efficiency and managerial effectiveness of today's large, public corporation. In the case of the ten UK Buyouts studied here, a platform is presented to understand the positive effects of re-integrating ownership and control and to examine what, by contrast, has accounted for the successful performance of these companies, post-buyout.

• management
• Manager
• Motivation
• strategy

• University College, Cork, Ireland

  Sebastian Green

• The MAC Group, UK

  Dean F. Berry

• The London Business School, UK

  Dean F. Berry

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