Cultural, Structural and Strategic Change in Management Buyouts

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.