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Dieses Handbuch ist angesichts wachsender Herausforderungen auf globalen Märkten als "Werkzeugkasten" konzipiert für die aktive Mitwirkung von Ingenieuren und Informatikern an der Gestaltung des Wandels zur Existenzsicherung ihrer Unternehmen. Mit dieser Zielsetzung haben die Autoren die bewährte "Betriebswirtschaft für Ingenieure und Informatiker" in dieser Auflage völlig überarbeitet, einige Grundlagen drastisch gestrafft und die Schwerpunkte Marketing und Controlling als Hauptwerkzeuge der Zukunftssicherung des Unternehmens wesentlich vertieft. Basierend auf der internationalen Vertriebs-, Produktions- und Controllingerfahrung des Autorenteams werden die Themen Produktivinnovation, Qualitätsmanagement und Prozessoptimierung als Bausteine eines Systems schlanker und flexibler Unternehmensführung nachvollziehbar praxisnah dargestellt. Das Buch bietet Studierenden eine fundierte Einführung und Praktikern einen klaren Überblick über die erfolgsbestimmenden Vorgehensweisen und Handlungsmöglichkeiten, mit denen Unternehmen im Markt zum Erfolg geführt werden.

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This paper studies thirty-one highly leveraged transactions (HLTs) of the 1980s that subsequently became financially distressed. At the time of distress, all sample firms have operating margins that are positive and in the majority of cases greater than the median for the industry. Therefore, we consider these firms financially distressed, not economically distressed. The net effect of the HLT and financial distress is a slight increase in value -- from pre-transaction to distress resolution, the sample firms experience a marginally positive change in (market- or industry-adjusted) value. This finding strongly suggests that, overall, the HLTs of the late 1980s succeeded in creating value. We also present quantitative and qualitative estimates of the (direct and indirect)costs of financial distress and their determinants. Our preferred estimates of the costs of financial distress are 10% of firm value. Our most conservative estimates do not exceed 23% of firm value. Operating margins of the distressed firms increase immediately after the HLT, decline when the firms become distressed and while they are distressed, but then rebound after the distress is resolved. Consistent with some costs of financial distress, we find evidence of unexpected cuts in capital expenditures, undesired asset sales, and costly managerial delay in restructuring. To the extent they occur, the costs of financial distress that we identify are heavily concentrated in the period after the firms become distressed, but before they enter Chapter 11.

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This guide debunks certain management terms and concepts in an anecdotal style. For added authenticity, it includes quotes from managers who rode the wave of particular fads and are now able to revisit their experiences with the subversive benefit of hindsight.

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