predicts takeover outcomes. It shows that positive media content about the acquirer predicts takeover success. Relative to …

The effect of severance pay on management behavior during a takeover battle is generally ambiguous. Yet, the severance …

for mounting a critique of the use of management and control systems by global corporations. It provides General Electric …'s takeover of the Italian company Nouvo Pignone as an instance. The systems are an essential element in the expansionary … generic management and control systems into the firms it acquires runs afoul of a Levinasian ethics. That many large global …

analysis of takeover rumors of publically traded US companies from 1990 to 2008 shows that these two types of rumors can be … statistically distinguished by returns of rumored takeover targets before rumor publication. However, market responses to the rumors …, takeover premiums of sampled targets cannot be explained by markup pricing hypothesis although the hypothesis is supported by …

UK data over the period 1988 to 2017. We find that takeover likelihood increases with “poor” management and “myopia”, but … framework for modelling management performance. This framework proposes “poor” management, “myopia”, “hyperopia” and “efficient …” management, as four distinct attributes of performance. We show that these new attributes align with, and extend, existing …

This article provides experimental evidence that bidder and target shareholders of a takeover announcement exhibit …