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Small Business Failure Rates: Choice of Definition and the Size Effect

Watson, John; Everett, Jim - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial and Small Business Finance 5 (1996) 3, pp. 271-285

Results of many previous studies on the rate of small business failure suggest an inverse relationship between size of business and propensity to fail. However, it has been suggested that this inverse relationship, between firm size and the rate of discontinuance, may more accurately be...

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Revitalisation through restructuring? The effects of union mergers

Kirsch, Anja - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 22 (2015) 2, pp. 116-141

Trade union mergers are regarded as a revitalisation strategy and are often associated with the goal of increasing … organisational power. But little is known about how mergers really affect the unions involved. This paper argues that the effects of … activities in new coverage areas, collective bargaining power, political influence, interunion competition and synergies within …

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Mergers and acquisitions: A qualitative study in the medical device sector

Jacob, Alon Ben - In: International Journal of Management, Economics and … 9 (2020) 3, pp. 161-181

One of the key processes that business leaders are using to grow their organizations is mergers and acquisitions (M …

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Consequences of the greek economic crisis on the structure of the Greek banking system

Karafolas, Simeon - In: Financial Studies 23 (2019) 4 (86), pp. 6-20

-performing loans, the reduction of banks operating in Greece due to mergers and acquisitions, bank bankruptcy and withdrawal of foreign …

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The effect of industry restructuring on peer firms

Holcomb, Alex; Mason, Paul - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 5, pp. 1-25

We study the bond price reaction of a merged firms peers, in order to better understand how the market responds to a restructuring. We argue that a merger announcement may signal the possibility of a merger wave to the industry, and in doing so, increase the conditional probability that peer...

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A Sectorial Analysis of Possible Information leakages prior to Merger and Acquisition Deals in Istanbul Stock Exchange

Sönmezer, Sıtkı - In: Journal of Economics and Political Economy 1 (2014) 2, pp. 186-194

This study aims to track insider trading activities prior to announcement of merger and acquisition deals in Istanbul Stock Exchange. 35 companies and 50 deals are examined for the period 2002 -2013 and significant average abnormal returns one months to twelve months prior to the dissemination...

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Measuring the M&A value of control and synergy in Central and Eastern European transition economies with the case of Avast -AVG acquisition

Moreira, David; Janda, Karel - In: European Financial and Accounting Journal 12 (2017) 3, pp. 157-170

We examine the valuation of synergies and control in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Central and Eastern European … from the Thomson Reuters database. Worldwide the market of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is increasing, reaching in 2016 a …

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Political affinity and investors' response to the acquisition premium in cross‐border M&A transactions — A moderation analysis

Fieberg, Christian; Lopatta, Kerstin; Tammen, Thomas; … - In: Strategic Management Journal 42 (2021) 13, pp. 2477-2492

premium in cross‐border acquisitions (CBAs). Based on a sample of 1,183 CBAs between 1999 and 2018, we find that political …

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Measuring synergies of banks' cross-border mergers by real options: Case study of Luminor Group AB

Čirjevskis, Andrejs - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 9, pp. 1-20

the paper is to explore multiple types of synergies in the recent, highly strategic cross-border merger - the Luminor … Group AB deal - and to value those synergies with the real options application. The research found that the sum of values of … different types of synergies in M&A deals as the market value added provided by this deal could be valued with real options …

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Synergies between Non-Digital and Digital Business Models: Opportunities and Recommendations

Toutaoui, Jonas; Müller, Lea; Benlian, Alexander - In: HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik 58 (2021) 3, pp. 628-644

Führungskräfte erkennen zunehmend, wie wichtig digitale Geschäftsmodelle sind, um die digitale Transformation in Unternehmen mit bestehenden nicht-digitalen Geschäftsmodellen erfolgreich umzusetzen. Dennoch fehlt oft das Bewusstsein für Synergien, die durch koexistente digitale und...

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