With mergers & acquisitions playing an increasingly important role in today's business world, academic research has strived to follow this trend by investigating their underlying causes and consequences. For a long time this research focused on the analysis of the financial effect of mergers &...

Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse als externe Wachstumsstrategien treten immer wieder wellenförmig in Erscheinung. Der Untersuchung der letzten bedeutenden Fusionswelle, die Mitte der 1990er Jahre begann und bis zum Jahrtausendwechsel anhielt, widmet sich diese Arbeit. Einen Schwerpunkt bildet...

This article analyses the performance and value creation of the glamorous operations of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the telecommunications sector, trying to understand if the glamour company's M&A operations conduct to the stockholder wealth maximization, and the role of acquirer's...