Title

Mergers And Acquisitions: A Value Creating Or Value Destroying Strategy?

Keywords

Complementary resources; Cooperative acquisitions; Cross-border acquisitions; Due diligence; Ethical implications; Financing acquisitions; Future research; Governance; Integration processes; Learning from acquisitions; Recommendations

Abstract

The volume and magnitude of mergers and acquisitions continue to grow on a global basis (Hitt, Harrison, and Ireland, 2001). Although the decade of the 1980s, produced 55.000 merger and acquisition transactions at a total value of $1.3 trillion, known as "merger mania." the 1990s produced more than twice that number, at a value of approximately $11 trillion. One observer suggested that the merger wave of the 1980s was a tidal wave during the 1990s, becoming CEOs' favorite growth strategy in the process (Sirower, 1998b).

Publication Date

2-26-2008

Publication Title

The Blackwell Handbook of Strategic Management

Number of Pages

377-402

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/b.9780631218616.2006.00014.x

Socpus ID

85044934746 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85044934746

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