Rhetoric, argument and impression management in hostile takeover defence documents

Hedge Fund Activism vs. Hostile Takeover Bids⇤

We compare hedge fund activism and hostile tender offers in a unified framework where any investor who acquires an equity stake to improve firm value faces a dual free-rider problem: Neither do dispersed shareholders sell their shares unless the price fully reflects the anticipated value improvement nor do those who retain their shares participate in the costs. We show that activism and tender ...

Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Argument

Many lawyers lack a basic understanding of the structure and process of legal argumentation. Their limited understanding, which often leads to less than effective advocacy, stems from legal education's failure to make the structure and process of legal argument explicit and systematic. One approach to this problem is to explore the intrinsic relationship of law to rhetoric. Because law and rhet...

Share Tendering Strategies and the Success of Hostile Takeover Bids

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Counter Argument In Defence of Common Sense

Towards a Rhetoric of Active Design Documents

Design documentation is costly, often inconsistent, and generally incomplete. Active Documents offer an active approach to capturing and delivering design rationale. In ADD, an existing implementation of an active document, what is stored and manipulated by system and user is not just information, but knowledge. Delivering knowledge at the interface level is a complex task, involving communicat...