Mergers & Acquisitions in the Machinery Industry

Which motives initiate managers to merge or to acquire other corporations? Florian Geiger gives a comprehensive overview about mergers and acquisitions in the machinery industry evaluating merger motives, benefits, and success of transactions. He closes the gap between theory and practice providing...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Geiger, Florian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden Gabler Verlag 2010, 2010
Edition:1st ed. 2010
Series:Schriften zum europäischen Management
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Which motives initiate managers to merge or to acquire other corporations? Florian Geiger gives a comprehensive overview about mergers and acquisitions in the machinery industry evaluating merger motives, benefits, and success of transactions. He closes the gap between theory and practice providing insights into merger rent generation on an empirical as well as a case study basis. He empirically tests a unique dataset of 330 machinery mergers using state-of-the-art statistical analysis providing many intriguing and surprising results. Both, theoretical and related empirical evidence provided serve as a starting point and guideline for future merger decision and evaluation in the machinery industry
Physical Description:XIV, 130 p. 4 illus online resource
ISBN:9783834960498