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Junk bonds burst into the nation's headlines as the fastest growing and most controversial financial instruments of the 1980s. Branded with an unflattering nickname, these high yield securities were tarnished in the public eye by waves of negative publicity. Critics cast the financiers and entrepreneurs who pioneered their use as symbols of a decade of greed and financial excess. By the end of the 1980s, the heyday of junk bonds had seemingly come to a close with the conviction of junk bond pioneer Michael Milken and the bankruptcy of Drexel Burnham Lambert, the brokerage that dominated the high yield market. But the controversy surrounding junk bonds continues.
Now, in Junk Bonds, business professor Glenn Yago turns the tables on conventional wisdom about this new financial technology. He offers the first systematic examination of the facts about high yield securities. His analysis provides hard evidence that demystifies junk bonds and explodes many of the popular myths that surround them.
Junk Bonds sheds light on the role of high yield financing in what Yago calls the democratization of capital. Before the advent of junk bonds, only companies with an "investment grade" rating--five percent of the 23,000 American companies with sales over $35 million--had access to long term capital. In effect, the author argues, 95 percent of American companies were denied the means to finance growth and business development. Yago shows how junk bonds changed all that, breathing life into thousands of American companies that had been shunned by the capital markets. His research demonstrates that these "junk" companies outperformed many Fortune 500 firms in job creation, product development, sales, and business innovation.
The real contribution of junk bonds, according to Yago, was to improve the productivity and competitiveness of American business by restructuring companies in the wake of the corporate conglomerations of the 1960s and 1970s. His findings show that divestitures by companies financed with high yield bonds were not necessarily destructive. Many sold-off units flourished as independent enterprises at a time when numerous "investment grade" companies stagnated or closed plants or fired workers. This restructuring of corporate America has enabled businesses to compete in a changing international environment, benefiting managers, workers, stockholders, and investors alike.
Junk Bonds provides readers with a scholarly analysis that shears away the hype and hysteria that often accompany rapid change. And at a time when Wall Street is under greater scrutiny than at any time since the Depression, this provocative study provides a timely and thoughtful contribution to the debate surrounding junk bonds..
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Gender and the Restructured University explores the impact of globalization and organizational change on academic institutions and their staff. It considers the restructuring of universities as part of a broader process of reconstructing academic identities for the global knowledge economy. It considers the corporatization of academic life and its particular implications for academic women. Finally, it looks closely at how women managers now handle the management of change within their own institutions against the backdrop of the past decade's globalization and restructuring of academia..
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What are the contemporary trends in workplace restructuring and the sociological impact on workers’ lives? Around what concepts will work be organized and groups and individuals motivated in their work into the new century?

To give you definition and answers to these contemporary questions, the editors of the sociological quarterly, Work and Occupations, assembled Working in Restructured Workplaces. It addresses contradictory influences in contemporary workplace restructuring, its impact on workers’ lives, and the direction and nature of future changes in the workplace. This authentic collection of sociological thought and research consists of previous works in Work and Occupations and some commissioned specifically for this book to focus on the nature, causes, and consequences of workplace restructuring.

The editors introduce a new concept of "workplace restructuring" to broaden your perspective and then assess implications for workers and their lives. The chapters address four major themes:

• Reconfiguring workplace status hierarchies
• Casualization of employment relationships
• Restructuring and worker marginalization
• Comparative labor responses to global restructuring

The last two chapters chart new research agendas on the boundaries and durability of workplace restructuring.

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An examination of key issues in electric utilities restructuring It covers: electric utility markets in and out of the USA; the Open Access Same-time Information System; tagging transactions; trading energy; hedging tools for managing risks in various markets; pricing volatility, risk and forecasting; regional transmission organization; and more. The text contains acronyms, a contract specifications sample, examples, and nearly 500 bibliographic citations, tables, and drawings..
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"This Isn't the Company I Joined" Seven Steps to Energizing a Restructured Work Force Carol Kinsey Goman "What Really Happens When Your Company Reorganizes … And How to Fix It! The big change is over. Employees feel secure, management is seen as caring and aware, the boardroom is viewed as credible and inspired, and the "big change" has been a resounding success. And if you really believe this, you badly need this book! More likely, the work force is confused and demoralized and managers have the uneasy feeling that something is terribly wrong. But all is not lost, thanks to the outspoken analysis and real-life solutions found in this look at the human side of change. Advance Praise for "This Isn't the Company I Joined" "Goman has captured the key elements that we are facing world. Those who keep up will do very well and others, I'm afraid, will be passed over." —Charles Lynch, Chairman, fresh Choice Inc. "This is a book for people who have arrived as well as those just starting. Carol Kinsey Goman has written a `must read' for anyone involved in leadership." —Robert L. Dilenschneider, CEO, The Dilenschneider Group "This is an outstanding book on the topic of managing corporate change. This book provides a compelling rationale for capturing the hearts and souls, in additions to the minds, of employees. And I agree — this is the single biggest factor for business in today's fast paced, always changing, competitive market." —Karen L. Hendricks, Chairman, President & CEO, Baldwin Piano & Organ Company "Change's best friend is this book. Carol Kinsey Goman has produced a highly enjoyable and informative book about organizational change, loyalty, and the challenges of transformation." —Lee Hornick, Program Director, The Conference Board "Having recently gone through a fairly sizable restructuring ourselves, I read with a great deal of interest Goman's steps to energizing a restructured work force. For any organization facing the kind of challenges we do, her approach to creating a `change-adept' employee base is well thought out,completely practical, and well supported by examples of its successful implementation." —Vasu R. Devan, Chairman and CEO, MECON, Inc. .
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