In the recent years Danish companies have increasingly acquired foreign companies and vice versa. The size of some company acquisitions surpasses the daily turnover in the foreign exchange market for kroner. A case study in this Economic Memo shows that large company acquisitions have not...

The outset for this thesis is the contemporary risk management concept of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). ERM has for the last 20 years been advocated as a technology of managing with a potential impact for the value creation in corporate life. The idea of managing or controlling risk is...