Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"merger and acquisition"”.
-
Employee Work Attitudes Post Merger and Acquisition
… past decade with a loss of $60 billion, and 150,000 jobs, the worst financial performance among any major industry, along with 186 bankruptcies over the last 30 years (The proposed United-Continental merger, 2010). Mergers and acquisitions have been the most recent remedy to the financial …
-
Developing scenarios for post-merger and acquisition integration: a grounded theory of 'risk bartering'
… suggests that the fifth ‘wave’ of global merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is coming to an abrupt end, the growth of M&A activity continued apace throughout the last decade of the twentieth century, with the year 2000 seeing an unprecedented US$3.5 trillion worth of deals worldwide …
-
Semiconductor industry merger and acquisition activity from a technology maturity and intellectual property perspective
… databases such as the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) track this exchange of technology rights. Thus, IP can be used as a public measure of value accumulation in the form of technology rights. As perceived value increases in the child company, M&A occurs . Extensive bodies …
-
Managing Organisation Change Through Merger and Acquisition - A Case Study for Telford Group of Companies.
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have been highly sought after by numerous organizations, as a mechanism to expand their business operations, gain competitive advantage over their market contestants and ultimately improve their overall value creation by enhancing the financial performance. However, …
-
Effects of executive-level leader's transformational leadership on talent retention in post merger and acquisition in China
… the continued employment of high potential and high-performing incumbents to fill the key positions that have the potential to have an impact on the competitive advantage of an organization (Schneider, 1987; Coldwell et al., 2008; Zhang et al., 2014), has been identified by previous …
-
The Role of Human Resource Development Professionals in the Merger and Acquisition Process of Fortune 500 Companies
… mostly performed in the supportive, partner and strategic roles. The 'leader' role was the least mention. Suggestions for enhancing the role of HRD professionals in future M&As were linked to the management of change, training, and organizational culture. The study findings can be used to …
-
Merger and Acquisition Financial Reporting Outcomes: An Examination of Non-Audit Fees and the Impact on Auditor Independence
… the issue of auditors providing both auditing and non-audit services (NAS) to their audit-clients continues to be at the forefront of concerns to regulators, investors, and academics. The literature primarily provides two competing effects of NAS on financial reporting quality. The first being …
-
Understanding the dynamic socio-technical aspects of merger and acquisition integration in the IT industry : a model-based framework
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) enable organizations to broaden their set of capabilities that equip them better to deal with the challenges lying ahead. While M&A transaction values account trillions of dollars each year, their success rate is surprisingly low. In spite of this, the amount of …
-
Essay on the Persistence of Corporate Diversification Discount after Merger and Acquisition Transactions and Essay on the Capital Structure Properties of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
… tax-driven benefit. Several methodologies and tests applied in capital structure literature are introduced to the literature of REITs capital structure. First, I investigate how the market prices leverage in absence of tax-deductibility benefit. Then, I diagnose the relative importance of …
-
La gestion participative en contexte de fusion/acquisition dans les PME à finalité sociale
… factor in the success of the process of "mergers and acquisitions", particularly in the specific context of study which is that of a socially oriented SMEs? ". It will indeed matter to verify whether the participatory management can be described as such, and that through a study of the …
-
An exploration of the influence of sensemaking on the process and outcomes of postmerger integration. Case studies in four manufacturing companies
Mergers and acquisitions have become very popular in recent decades for firms seeking competitive advantage. The high failure rates of these initiatives make a closer look at the influence of the human factors and their complexity on these change activities necessary. This study traces the …
-
The Intangible Reverberations Following Mergers & Acquisitions
This study preliminarily investigates how merger and acquisition (M&A) activities affect employees as stakeholders of the company system - specifically in the areas of leadership, communication, company direction, project autonomy, and path for career growth. Interviews of 14 employees supporting …
-
An analysis of the impact of corporate and business level strategies upon postmerger integration practices of firms acquiring foodservice organizations for a six year period
… (1) investigate whether variations in corporate and business level strategies have any impact upon post merger integration practices of firms acquiring food service organizations; and (2) to develop some preliminary explanations as to any relationships that may exist between the two. Four factors …
-
Competition and Merger in Network Economy
This thesis is concerned about firm’s merger and competition behavior in modern<br/>economies in which networks are ever-more important and how to optimize merger<br/>policy when network externalities present. As a demand-side economics of scale,<br/>network externalities bring benefit to consumers …
-
An analysis of wealth effect to shareholders of the lodging industry in mergers and acquisitions
… question of whether additional wealth gains from merger and acquisition activities accrued to shareholders of both acquiring and target hotel firms since there is no enough evidence related to the hospitality industry; The result indicated that corporate takeovers generate, on average, significant …
-
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 …
-
The Impact of Post-Acquisition Autonomy upon Small to Medium Enterprise Integration Success
<p>Most theories in merger and acquisition (M&A) research use an individual or group level of analysis and address behavioral issues in M&A integration and adaptation. Relatively few studies apply a firm level analysis to investigate strategic issues pertaining to autonomy and decision-making …
-
Anatomy of a merger : an examination of factors influencing REIT consolidation
… was made into the factors influencing the recent merger and acquisition activity in the Real Estate Investment Trust ("REIT") industry. Several financial factors influencing consolidation activity were reviewed in theory including the desire to lower the cost of capital to the REIT, to take …
-
Motives for mergers and acquisitions in the South African construction industry
Merger and acquisition (M&A) strategies have been very popular for many years as a means to drive growth and strategic competitiveness. But the question is, what are the motives for M&A transactions? This research seeks to identify, analyse and understand the motivation for mergers and acquisitions …
Page 1 of 3