Valeur actionnariale : la leçon d’Alfred Rappaport
Alfred Rappaport défend la valeur actionnariale dans le Financial Times dans un article intitulé : « What managers misunderstand about shareholder value » (14 août 2016). Il revient sur cette notion en démontrant qu’elle ne saurait se résumer dans le simple court-termisme et les bilans financiers trimestriels.
Why do companies obsess over quarterly earnings and fail to invest adequately in long-term growth? And why would a company such as Volkswagen lie to its customers and government emission testers? Conventional wisdom places the blame squarely on the pursuit of shareholder value which, it is claimed, has fuelled pernicious short-term thinking and irresponsible behaviour.
(…) Let us be clear what managing for shareholder value really means. It means focusing on cash flow, not earnings. It means managing for the long-term, not the short-term. And it means that managers must take risk into account in their capital allocation decisions. Properly implemented, there is no better cure for short-termism than managing for shareholder value with its long-term orientation.
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Ivan Tchotourian