CONTENTS
Figures and Tables vii
Acknowledgments xi
1. The Speculative Management of Corporate Restructuring:
Introduction and Overview 1
2. Transactional Finance in Late-Twentieth-Century America 30
3. Social Intermediaries and the Wave of Internal Corporate
Restructuring in the Late Twentieth Century 62
4. Financial Accounting as a Social Intermediary 91
5. Social Intermediation, Corporate Governance, and
Financial Markets 125
6. The Rise of Corporate Restructuring, 1984–1990 156
7. The Reign of Restructuring, 1991–1993 184
8. The Decline and Delegitimation of Restructuring, 1994–1997 208
9. The Speculative Management of Corporate Value:
Summary and Conclusions 255
Notes 271
Bibliography 291
Index 311