Megamerger sind seit Beginn der 90er Jahre zu einer wichtigen Strategie von international agierenden Medienunternehmen geworden. Ein Höhepunkt dieser Entwicklung ist der Merger der amerikanischen Unternehmen America Online und Time Warner im Jahr 2001 - zum damaligen Zeitpunkt der zweitgrößte...

Bank monitoring, firm performance, and top management turnover in Japan / Christopher W. Anderson, Terry L. Campbell, Narayanan Jayaraman, Gershon N. Mandelker -- Ownership structure and shareholder voting on board structure changes / Teresa A. John, Gopala K. Vasudevan -- Did earnings...

U.S. regulators and Congress gave an increased level of scrutiny to recently approved international mergers involving a U.S. telecommunications firm merging with a company in which a foreign government owns a controlling interest. A foreign government that is friendly today has the potential to...

Standard economic models assume that many small investors own firms. This is so in most large U.S. firms, but wealthy individuals or families generally hold controlling blocks in smaller U.S. firms and in all firms in most other countries. Given this, the lack of theoretical and empirical work...