Alluru, Jayanth-Reddy; Thomas, Mark - In: Strategic Direction 32 (2016) 6, pp. 40-42
Purpose Between 1985 and 2001, only 45 of 90,480 total European mergers and acquisitions were identified as a merger of equals (Zaheer et al. , 2003). This indicates that there were less than 1 per cent of the M&A deals that could actually be categorized as a merger of equals. This paper aims to...