Current challenges for corporate finance

With a focus on karren formation in high mountains, and specifically in the European Alps, this text summarizes the scientific results of systematic observations made during field trips, as well as the interpretation, using modern analytical methods, of the data collected. Márton Veress, who has been working in different types of karren landscapes for more than fifteen years, presents the conditions and processes of high mountain karren formation as well as the properties of karren features. The book analyzes karren phenomena, their development, and their formation under different environmental conditions. Introductory chapters provide an overview of karren formations, in addition to chartingthe history of research into karst environments at high altitude. The author then provides details of the sampling sites and the localities he has studied,and experimental procedures undertaken. After covering the details of the ageand rate of karren form development, Veress gives an in-depth explanation of the general characteristics of high mountain karren formations. The text then provides an overview of morphogenetic types of karren formations as well as karren assemblages, and an explanation of karren belts on slopes, emphasizing the key reconstruction role they play in slope development. The final chapters describe coalescing types and their origin, offer the reader a detailed description of karren cells and their characteristic features, and analyze the relationship between different karren formations. Describes the processes of high mountain karstification Investigates changes in vegetation and soil erosion Discusses the impacts of global change, such as the shift in karst formation and the transformation of karst features INDICE: 1. Introduction.- 2.Major Characteristics of High Mountain Karstification.- 3. Karren Features.- 4. Karren Assemblages.- 5.Local Karren Belts.- 6. Coalescing of Karren Forms.- 7. Karren Cells.- 8. Relationship between the Levels of Karren Formation in Various High Mountain Environments.Strategic corporate finance? This sounds like a paradox at first. After all, corporate finance means responding to the financial markets. Strategy, on the other hand, aims to change and shape the environment in the long term. Lately,though, more and more managers and investors appear to be breaking the laws of the capital market. At the same time, corporations are discovering new ways to not just react to the capital markets, but to actively shape them. The authors show that these violations are not isolated occurrences, but part of a paradigm shift. If companies want to stay successful in changing markets, they have to take a strategic approach to corporate finance. The authors use practical examples to demonstrate how this can be achieved. This book is intended not only for corporate finance experts, but also for students interested in the latest developments on the financial markets. For the first time, it presents anexhaustive analysis of how mergers and acquisitions, strategic corporate communication, entrepreneurial finance, corporate social responsibility and the emergence of new investors interrelate and affect developments on the financial market The authors submit that these different phenomena all have a common root: the far-reaching changes that are rewriting the rules which govern the financial markets By developing a new theoretical approach – the strategic corporate finance perspective – they also present a systematic explanation of what, up to now, were seen as disparate trends INDICE: Introduction.- Old and New Financial Paradigms.- Mergers and Acquisitions.- Corporate Communication.- New Forms of Funding in Strategic Corporate Finance: Entrepreneurial Finance, Venture Capital, Private Equity and Hedge Funds.- The Importance of CSR Capital for Sustainable Strategic Corporate Finance.- Investor Churn.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-04112-9
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Desconocida
• Páginas: 124
• Fecha Publicación: 24/09/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido