Enhancing shareholder value is one of the primary goals along with the profitability in the competitive world. Top-level management is striving for creating the higher shareholder value by making efficient decisions. Shareholder value as the key objective of the firm and measures such as economic value added, market value added, shareholder value added and created shareholder value (CSV) have gained popularity in measuring the shareholder wealth creation. Among various financing decisions, capital structure decision plays a vital role, that is, mix of debt and equity. Considering the optimal capital structure with the right balance between equity and debt is always a challenge for the financial managers, and also to run the business successfully by gaining higher profits and enhancing shareholder value. An attempt has been made to analyse the capital structure impact on shareholder value by considering CSV as a shareholder value measure in 77 Indian pharmaceutical firms listed in BSE over a period of 9 years from 2007 to 2015. Using the balanced panel data and regression models, we found that determinants such as debt–equity ratio, long-term debt ratio and short-term debt ratios have positive correlation with CSV and negatively related to total debt ratio in the absence of tax.

The article attempts to study in detail the significance of shareholder value creation in the companies in emerging markets and reviews the research articles and studies available in categories such as importance, empirical evidence and drivers of shareholder value creation. The purpose of this article is to give an insight into shareholder value in the first section followed by the empirical evidence and drivers of the shareholder value. For this purpose of review, the article considers various studies made on shareholder value creation published by various recognised and other recognised sources. It is observed that shareholder value creation is the most important objective in this competitive business environment to maintain the long-term relationship with the investors. The empirical evidence attempts to prove that value-based measures outperform the traditional accounting measures. The article tries to investigate the need for finding the superior measure among the shareholder value performance measures and recommends the need for reviewing the traditional performance methods.

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