We analyze a comprehensive set of mergers and acquisitions from SDC data from 1992 through 2009. We do not impose common restrictions such as excluding private bidders, small targets, or deals without a deal value. We show a broader scope of mergers and acquisitions activity than that implied in the literature, which generally oversamples larger deals involving public firms. Further, some of ou...

Source: Succeeding in Hospital & Health Systems M&A: Why So Many Deals Have Failed, and How to Succeed in the Future, Booz & Company, March 20, 2013 Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) among hospitals and healthcare organizations have been on the rise for several years now. Deals between hospitals, physician medical groups, long-term care facilities, and home health providers abound, with activity l...

The story of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is as old as the story of history itself. Parents sought to increase the happiness of their families by arranging marriages between their sons and daughters; emperors formed alliances or conquered new territories in search of wealth, power and prosperity; today’s CEOs seek to increase revenue, decrease cost, improve market share and strengthen competi...

The increased competition caused by the global economy we are facing has forced companies to develop well established corporate strategies. Merging or acquiring a company has for a long time been used by organizations as one of the main strategic tools for expanding globally or for entering new markets. The problem is that over 50 percent of the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) fail by delivering...

Mergers and acquisitions have become a normal business occurrence for companies large and small. Integration of entities following mergers and acquisitions are often more painful and less successful than they could be. The integration of information technology functions plays a vital role in the ultimate results of such a merger by actualizing product and customer synergies, establishing best p...

In this paper we have discussed what mergers and acquisitions are and how they are a part of any organizations strategic planning policy. Organizations ‘merge’ generally with similar organizations or ‘acquire’ weaker organizations, and the essence as to why they do so is that the value of two is greater than one. They basically merge with or acquire each other’s strengths and try to overcome on...

This paper investigates the mergers and acquisitions by the emerging country multinational companies. Emerging country multinational companies do not have access to big amounts of capital as many developed country multinational companies. These companies can decide to engage in mergers and acquisitions with those of the other emerging country multinational companies in order to increase their p...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and alliances are potential alternative choices for managers. We propose that three dimensions of industry conditions are likely to be influential in such choices: (1) industry demands on firms to make significant commitment, (2) the environmental pressures for flexibility, and (3) the limitations on firm choices stemming from industry concentration and instituti...

The last few years have seen an increase in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity among information security firms and other information technology (IT) firms offering complementary technologies. Using social network analysis methods, we investigate the characteristics and underlying dynamics of these M&A activities in the United States (US) over the period 1996–2008. Our results reveal a...

This paper analyzes the major trends in the business environment that shaped the business models adopted by companies and their new marketing strategies. It adopts a desktop research methodology by collecting data from previous academic papers, statistical, and analytical reports. It starts by analyzing the globalization trend that forced most of the emerging economies to liberalize and privati...