nation. This survey reviews the nature and evolution of the corporate governance of UK public companies over the past 300 … which shareholders monitored and exercised voice to one where there was more reliance on external forces and exiting …

Mergers and acquisitions within the Australian-real estate investment trusts (A-REITs) sector have become a noticeable … trend in the last decade. Utilising event study methodology, 36 successful A-REIT mergers and acquisitions between January … 1995 and December 2008 were examined. Both target and bidding shareholders experience positive excess returns of 4.27% and …

economy model when analysing actual shareholders' value retrenchment or growth opportunities. The author finds that recent … into some interesting strategic moves used to boost shareholders' value. We recommend shareholders to grasp opportunities …

In line with the international literature mergers and acquisitions produce ambiguous economic impact in Greece. Target … incentives and the hybrid hypothesis constitute primary driving forces for mergers and acquisitions. … returns in Greece converges with those in Continental Europe, while in contrast differs significantly with the Anglo …

performance measures. We argue that mergers and acquisitions are distinct strategies, because of the unique regulatory structure … create value and non-related acquisitions destroy value, both related and unrelated mergers create value. Copyright Springer … extant theories of synergy or agency. We present a modified synergy story and illustrate that, while related acquisitions …