For many industries, mergers and acquisitions have become the main pathway for reaching strategic objectives like growth, technological leadership, or efficiency in production and distribution. However, the success rate of most M&A deals is low - and flawed. Unrealistic synergies, wrong target...

This book addresses the salient question of how to make mergers and acquisitions work using a five-step approach. It explores insights gained from Prysmian's acquisitions and other prominent M&A deals, and compares them to existing best practices.

International Leadership: Effecting Success Across Borders in a Boundaryless World -- Enacting Opportunities Across Borders -- Early and Rapid or Late and Slow? -- Cooperation with Distributors in Arabic-Speaking Countries -- The Curious Case of Leadership in International Branch Campuses in...

Seasoned businesspeople, especially those engaged in international mergers and acquisitions (M&A), are keenly aware of the fact that no matter how pleasant their pre-arrangement business courtship has been, disputes, either pre or post closing, may, indeed, occur. Some disputes may be benign and...