But analysts agree that valuations on the books of private equity firms can be skewed by the firms' motivation to place high values on their investments.
The results obtained suggest that firms' motivations for cooperative R&D are the complexity of technology and the fact that innovation is costly and uncertain.
Major themes of the research include the analysis of developers' and firms' motivations, license choice, successful implementations and the impact on innovation.
This paper is principally concerned with the firm's motivation to rebalance power imbalances rather than any actual regulatory outcomes.
Results indicate that significant determinants of the recycle decision include the firm size, motivation for recycling, current recycling situation, as well as owner/manager education level.
In both cases, the firm's motivation was to purportedly shape up for a potential IPO by offloading loss-making units that had lost the local market.
On his firm's motivation for investing in Clever, Schreier said that it is "the fastest growing EdTech company" the firm has seen to date, and that the startup is on the path to becoming the next big education platform.
This perspective introduces three elements into the discussion: firstly, the presence and the type of stimuli or drivers; secondly, the degree of responsiveness that characterises the organization; and thirdly, a firm's motivations.
Within the last two decades, CSR disclosure by firms motivated an increasing number of research studies examining the motivation of this disclosure.
This theory, he argues, is difficult to test empirically since we usually cannot be certain that we can recognize firms' real motivations.
Despite extensive scrutiny of the firm-specific motivations for, and consequences of, outward FDI; we know relatively little about inward FDI, the impact of inward FDI on host country firms, and especially, how inward FDI affects the innovativeness of those firms.
