The impact of Private Equity investments on firms’ supply chain: evidence from 6 Italian cases

Private equity (PE) funds have started looking beyond their original short-term horizon. They have expanded their investment time-frame and gradually moved their focus from exploiting leverage and market timing of the deals to generating structural value in their portfolio companies. The impact of their takeovers has been largely studied in terms of operating and financial performance, but not in the set of action programs implemented in the supply chain (SC). This case-based research provides a first investigation of the SC areas where PE intervene, based on the in-depth analysis of the activities and impacts of six Italian PE funds.