Shareholders Strategy and Value Creation

<p>The central task of contemporary strategic management is to look for sources of value and to achieve above- average firm performance. The effective implementation of a value creation strategy requires a comprehensive approach including the creation of a systemic management structure aimed at increasing company value.</p><p>The concept of value- based management involves consciously inspiring undertaking and implementing value- oriented actions. Value creation takes place at all levels of management and in all organisational units of the company; therefore the implementation of all management functions should be assigned to this goal. Thus the role of managers is gaining importance especially those who are capital- linked to companies who set goals and verify them by means of informed decisions aimed at maximising value in the long term.</p><p>The book presents a multidimensional analysis of shareholders’ impact on company value creation. The authors chose the IT sector as the area of study; this sector being one in which modern technologies are essential acquires special significance for the global economy.</p><p>The book features a review of notions and concepts related to the management of company value and methods of measuring it the shareholder’s impact on the creation of company value and factors affecting long- term value creation; an analysis of the places of occurrence power and direction of a shareholder’s impact on building the long- term capacity of an IT sector company for creating the value thereof as well as the conceptualisation and operationalisation of such impact; an analysis of the role of shareholders in IT sector companies a profile of shareholder competence which makes the role of a shareholder unique to the company and fulfils the “value- creating owner” postulate; an analysis of the role of hired managers cooperating with the shareholders with an indication of the significance of mutual development and the supplementation of one’s own skills.</p><p>The book is dedicated to scientists in the field of strategic management valuebased management and leadership; shareholders; students of EMBA and MBA programmes; practitioners in strategic management; and current shareholders of modern technology companies (in particular from the IT sector) and future investors for all of whom it may offer a valuable outlook on the management principles and practices in the sectors particularly with respect to the long- term creation of company value.</p><p>The Open Access version of this book available at <a href=http://www.taylorfrancis.com>www.taylorfrancis.com</a> has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.</p>