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Showing 1 to 20 of 187 for “"Mergers and acquisitions"”.
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ESSAYS ON BANKING MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
… three chapters which are three papers on banking mergers and acquisitions. Bank failure and bank takeover are major risks which cause a bank to cease to exist, and Chapter 1 focuses on analyzing the factors which indicate bank takeover target vs. bank failure. The target banks would be integrated …
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Enterprise Systems and Mergers and Acquisitions
… studies the impact of enterprise systems on mergers and acquisitions. The first chapter examines the relationship between Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). It also …
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Acquirer reputation in mergers and acquisitions
… making, employee retainment, cost reduction, and partner selection have been studied and documented by academics. Despite this, there have been insufficient studies on reputation and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity. M&As are an important corporate strategy that firms use to survive and …
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Employee protection in mergers and acquisitions
The acquisition of companies by means of takeovers, or transfers is a frequent occurrence in modem industrialised world. The process of takeover of one company by another, or of amalgamation of one company with another or of merger of one company into group of companies may take place in a variety …
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Two Essays on Mergers and Acquisitions
… the valuation effect of the Q-hypothesis of mergers and acquisitions. The Q-hypothesis of mergers and acquisitions proposes that takeovers of low-Q targets by high-Q acquirers should be value creating as acquirers redeploy the targets' assets. I revisit the valuation effects of mergers and …
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Are cross-border mergers and acquisitions better or worse than domestic mergers and acquisitions? The UK evidence
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are important corporate strategy actions that are vital for the companies in order to survive in this competitive global world. The popularity of those actions has increased over the years, especially in the international domain. In the UK, both the number and value …
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Sources of Value in Mergers and Acquisitions
This PhD thesis investigates sources of value in mergers and acquisitions, using a discounted cash-flow valuation method to develop a model that explains sources of economic gains. The model identifies three major sources of value in mergers, each of which can reduce or contribute to the combined …
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Essays on Mergers and Acquisitions and Governance
<p>There is a recent strand of corporate finance literature that explores the impact of executives and directors' Social connections on firm value, performance, and governance. Those studies document that such Social connections could be beneficial when they enhance the sharing of information and …
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Predicting mergers and acquisitions using machine learning
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) play a crucial role in the expansion of companies. During a typical M&A deal, the target company is offered a significant premium over their current share price by the acquirer. This results in a material increase in the target company's share price on the …
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Game-theoretic models for mergers and acquisitions
… part of the thesis deals with the construction and testing of analytical game-theoretic models to explain the proportion of the synergy gains accruing to the target company under different assumptions about the players' a priori knowledge. Assuming full certainty amongst the players about the …
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Mergers and acquisitions in Australia: reasons and timing
This study addresses mergers and acquisitions in Australia, particularly fluctuations in the merger rate, the role of the business cycle in such fluctuations, the reasons for mergers and their role in explaining any cyclical variability and the parallels between the timing of merger fluctuations in …
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Essays on the Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions
… builds on the economic research about M&A and the effects on the merging plants' performance. In particular, the objective of this thesis is to shed some light on questions about causal effects of M&A on plants' performance, taking firm heterogeneity into account. Since there is no typical …
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Mergers and acquisitions : a unified human resources model
The incidence of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) has proliferated throughout the world including all sectors of our society, both municipal and industrial, private and public. However, the majority (60-80%) of them do not reach their intended objectives due to the fact that the merging …
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Mergers and acquisitions in the medical device industry
Mergers and acquisitions in the Medical Device Industry are the primary mode of exit for early stage companies. The focus of this thesis is to examine factors which influence the value of these M&A transactions from the target and acquiring firm perspectives and to understand the value creation …
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The effect of mergers and acquisitions on shareholder returns
Mergers and acquisitions net only affect the value of merging firms but also generate a positive or negative wealth effect for shareholders of firms involved. The Hubris theory hypothesises that mergers and acquisitions affect the value of the firms as well as shareholder wealth. This theory …
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The Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on Bank Risks
This thesis examines the effects of bank mergers on acquiring banks' default risk and on their contributions to systemic risk using an international merger sample, covering the period between 1998 and 2015. Furthermore, it investigates whether the changes in acquirers’ default risk after …
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Principal-principal conflicts in Asean 5 mergers and acquisitions
… principal-principal (PP) conflicts arising in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Asean 5 countries; Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. This thesis is the first study adapting the well-established Lintner dividend model (Lintner, 1956) to examine the potential use of …
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Does Firm-Level Political Risk Affect Mergers and Acquisitions?
… firm is less likely to engage in M&A activities and less likely to take large M&A deals when its exposure to political risk is high. This effect is particularly evident when acquirers are taking diversified M&As or when acquirers are influential and dominant in their industry. I also find a …
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Mergers and acquisitions process improvement in a matrix organization
3M has had aggressive growth through acquisitions. Almost all of the acquisitions add new manufacturing sites to the existing manufacturing and distribution networks. 3M is composed of 38 divisions (as of 2011) with significant independence. There are corporate experts in the different functional …
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Aerospace mergers and acquisitions from a lean enterprise perspective
… industry experienced major transitions: mergers and acquisitions, and lean transformation initiatives. This thesis presents research about the relation of lean efforts and mergers and acquisitions. It is based on case studies of mergers and acquisitions undertaken by Boeing Company. In …
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