Our research results suggest that firms, and thus shareholders, would economically benefit from managing their stakeholder relationships in a manner that positively affects firm prospects and shareholder wealth.
For example, the manager's negative private information on firm prospects may cause him both to sell equity and to reduce investment.
As an attractive and accomplished member of a prominent household her sister's father-in-law was a former governor of Illinois Mary received much attention, particularly from Abraham Lincoln, then a struggling country lawyer with no firm prospects.
Though arriving without money or firm prospects for employment, he soon got a temporary post teaching comparative literature at Wellesley; in 1948, he ascended to a full professorship at Cornell, where he taught Russian Literature.
I had no firm prospects, but I was ambitious and trying to be optimistic; I spent four years in San Francisco as an associate editor at a magazine, and I received an out-of-the-blue letter from Martin Amis saying he liked an essay I wrote — a trophy for sure, but could you send it around like a résumé?
As productivity fell and firms' prospects worsened, wages were largely cut or capped.
As workers' productivity fell and firms' prospects worsened, wages were cut, capped or boosted by less than inflation.
Are you saying that if they project uncertainty about their firms' prospects, they'll be more influential?
Poland, with its head start in democratization and an established opposition in Solidarity, seems to have the firmest prospects.
Ironically for a desert dispute, the battle for Western Sahara is now being waged at sea, by way of the multinational firms prospecting for oil off the Atlantic coast.
