Nguyen, Sang V.; Ollinger, Michael - In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88 (2006) 3, pp. 606-616
This article investigates the motives for mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the U.S. meat products industry from 1977 to 1992. Results show that acquired meat and poultry plants were very productive before mergers, and that all but the very largest meat slaughter and processing plants and all...
