In the past ten years, there’s been a good surge in the number of mergers and acquisitions worldwide. This improvement of the number of transactions is included in the the majority of the previous studies but moreover, several studies show that the majority of the mergers and acquisitions fail in the objective of creating value …
Existing theories regarding mergers and acquisitions mainly focus on either strategic issues that the top management has to deal with or how the employees in an organization deal with the uncertain environment when a change get implemented. The majority of theories do not even mention one of the key actors during a merge; the middle …
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are not a new phenomenon in Japanese business. Especially after the end of the Allied occupation of Japan, the number of domestic M&As rose sharply due to the reconsolidation of former Zaibatsu firms broken up by the occupation authorities. During the Japanese post-war economic recovery, M&As between non-keiretsu firms became more …