Determinants of Shareholder Value Creation in Indian Banking Sector

A variety of ideas of value have been put forward in the accounting literature, including the value at which an asset is carried on a balance sheet, the price at which buyers and sellers trade in an open market, and the present value of future cash flows. Shareholder value creation is a vital research area to be explored further in Indian perspective. Several studies have been found in the literature at national and international level which supports EVA as the best measure of firm¿s performance and its shareholder value creation. Several other studies are in contradiction with these results which are rather in favour of the value based measures as better determinants of Shareholder value. Thus, these results are controversial and indicate the need of identifying the determinants of shareholder value and searching out for the best ones. Shareholder value creation in banks is found to be interested area of research in international studies. Recent financial crisis have adversely affected the shareholder value of banks in many countries.