Strategic Bankruptcy
Subtitle: How Corporations and Creditors Use Chapter 11 to Their Advantage
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 4, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780520073593
Subjects: Bankruptcy & insolvency law; Business strategy; Credit & credit institutions; English law: bankruptcy & insolvency; Organizational theory & behaviour; Political science & theory; Corporate Finance; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Bankruptcy & Insolvency; Corporate & Business History - Strategies; Social Science / Sociology / General
First sentence: The word bankruptcy comes from banca rupta, or broken bench, which referred to the Italian custom in medieval outdoor markets of smashing the benches and stalls of merchants who did not pay their bills (see Tremain 1938).