Bjoern Schluter

Critical Evaluation of the Strategies of Privatization and Public Offerings: Illustrated by Examples of Deutsche Telekom Bjoern Schluter

Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,2, Hogeschool Zeeland (Economics), language: English, abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: The following chapters contents can be divided into two parts. One part shall provide an overall view on the schedule of an IPO. Certain hints that are given during that part are further described later on. To let you know which other arrangements are thinkable, the other part focusses on the theoretical possibilities to realize an IPO. To make the explanations more plastic, examples with Deutsche Telekom AG will come up. To realize this complex structure, first of all, the actual situation of Deutsche Telekom AG will be explained with all its business fields and networks of cooperation activities, and, of course, strategies already executed. A central question in the corporate convergence debate is the extent to which parties will settle on a shareholder capitalism model, in which managerial accountability will be measured against a public shareholder wealth maximization criterion. This paper evaluates one spectacular event for the impact on German corporate governance: the privatization of Deutsche Telekom. This outstanding transaction had symbolic impact, because it made many Germans shareholders for the first time, but the terms of the transaction substantially protected these shareholders against equity risk and deprived them of governance rights. Inhaltsverzeichnis: Table of Contents: INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS6 1. FOREWORD7 2. ABSTRACT OVERVIEW7 3. COMPANY PROFILE: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG7 3.1Internet Services9 3.2Data and IP Systems Solutions10 3.3Access/Networks10 3.4T-Mobile International AG10 3.4.1T-Mobile in Germany11 3.4.2T-Mobile in UK12 3.4.3T-Mobile in Austria13 3.4.4T-Mobile in the Netherlands13 3.4.5T-Mobile Investments in Eastern and Central Europe13 3.4.6T-Mobile investments in the USA14 3.5Services14 3.6Partnerships15 4. INTRODUCTION IPO15 4.1Reasons for Transformation18 4.2Targ