The Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco's Transformation from Innovation to Financialization
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Keywords
Cisco Systems; communication technology; enterprise networking; strategic control; organizational integration; financial commitment; acquisitions; stock-based compensation; share repurchasers; dividends; shareholder value; global competition; innovation; financialization.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
- E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
- E23 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Production
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
- G35 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Payout Policy
- L21 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Business Objectives of the Firm
- L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
- L63 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - Microelectronics; Computers; Communications Equipment
- M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
- N81 - Economic History - - Micro-Business History - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
- O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2023-08-28 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-ICT-2023-08-28 (Information and Communication Technologies)
- NEP-PKE-2023-08-28 (Post Keynesian Economics)
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