Kai Oliver Thiele analyses M&As between companies from different cultures, which in general impose unique challenges, but also offer invaluable opportunities for all parties. Since Japan lags expectations regarding the amount of cross-border M&As, it is the more important to understand the...

Matthias Schu examines three main topics in his research: The intention of store-based retail and wholesale companies to open up an own online channel, factors determining the foreign market selection behavior of online retailers as well as factors affecting the speed in the internationalization...

Retail internationalization is gaining importance in retail practice, but the research status is still fairly narrow. Stefan Elsner aims to close this gap by investigating three important challenges within the retail internationalization process: the appropriate choice of market entry modes, the...

This book integrates two different but equally prominent themes in the management field: mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and corporate social responsibility (CSR). It explores questions such as whether strategic goals overlap or conflict with sustainability choices, what the strategic and...

This thesis analyzes the motivation and performance of 403 acquisitions made by emerging multinational corporations (EMNCs) in Western Europe and North America between 1994 and 2013. The findings indicate that most EMNCs were motivated to acquire in order to obtain access to the upstream and...

“This book is essential reading for anyone interested in cross-border mergers and acquisitions. It offers exclusive insights into Japanese overseas acquisitions obtained from extensive research into over 100 actual outbound transactions. The author explores why many of these deals have failed...

The book examines the market reaction to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) announcements over a period from 2003 to 2015. Mergers and acquisitions continue to be amongst the preferred competitive options available to the companies seeking to grow fast in the rapidly changing global business...

Thomas M. Brunner-Kirchmair analysiert, inwiefern Corporate Governance Einfluss auf die Performance von Mergers & Acquisitions hat. Neben einer theoretischen Aufarbeitung und einer intensiven Analyse der bestehenden Literatur führt der Autor eine umfangreiche empirische Studie zum kaum...

Sebastian Burchhardt develops a game theory model that analyzes the possible behavioral patterns of employees during MA processes and the impact of such patterns on the success of the transaction itself. The result is the development of a principal-multi-agent model that allows for endogenous...