He added that Dunstone and his chief executive, Roger Taylor, already had a "strong track record of undertaking value-enhancing transactions with Best Buy".
At the last count, the Fundação Dom Cabral, a business school, reckoned there were more than 40 large Brazilian firms undertaking value-adding activities in different parts of the world.
Perhaps most importantly, probabilistic sensitivity analysis can be extended to undertake value of information analysis to inform priority-setting and the design of future research [20].
Similarly, overconfidence leads CEOs to overpay for target companies and to undertake value-destroying mergers (Malmendier and Tate 2008).
Managers may undertake value-destroying diversification to entrench themselves or to empire-build (Amihud and Lev 1981; Jensen 1986).
Bauguess and Stegemoller (2008) examine the relation between ATPs and bidder announcement returns for S&P500 firms during 1994 2005 and find that ATPs are unrelated to bidder returns and conclude that ATPs do not encourage managers to undertake value-destroying acquisitions.
Similarly, Li and Tang (2010) find that risk taking of a company relates positively to the CEO's overconfidence, leading CEOs to overpay for target companies and to undertake value-destroying mergers (Malmendier and Tate 2008).
(Participant 9, female, age 92 , 18weeks post operation) Participants who no longer undertook valued activities that involved significant mobility were content to continue as they were, for example, occupying themselves with visits from family and reading.
Following hip fracture, for those who had some prefracture mobility and were able to articulate what they value during recovery, stable mobility, that is, mobility without the experience of or fear of falling, and mobility that allows people to undertake valued activities are most valued.
Table 1 presents data that combines information from Imani Development Consultants (2004) and CYE Consult (2009), who undertook a value chain analysis of several Malawian chains, including dairy, for the European Commission.
With the prospects of a link between the navigation and the Basingstoke Canal being constructed, the undertaking was valued at £24,000, and D'Arcy sold a half share in it to his agent, George Hollis.
