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Pandit, Shail - 2009

A large proportion of acquisitions results in shareholder wealth destruction. This study examines who is responsible for allowing bad acquisitions. Using a sample of 349 tax-free, stock-for-stock, pooling acquisitions over 1993-2001, the announcement period abnormal returns of acquirers are...

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Control Controversies in Malawian Banking Industry Acquisitions

Kampanje, Brian Phiri - 2022

Business Combination in form of acquisition brings a lot of enthusiasm on the shareholders and the economy. These are however complex transactions governed by statutory provisions, regulator’s guidelines and professional input. This study explored business combination in the Malawian Banking...

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Consideration Considerations in Acquisition Transactions in the Privatisation of Indebank and Malawi Savings Limited

Kampanje, Brian Phiri - 2022

Consideration is the sum paid by an acquirer in exchange for shareholding in an investee and is a product of offer and acceptance principle which reflects the wishes of the buyer and seller. The exact number of shares to be purchased is supposed to be unequivocal and what must be paid should be...

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Review of Antitrust Regulations in Malawian Banking Acquisitions – Institutional Review of Competition and Fair Trade Commission

Kampanje, Brian Phiri - 2022

Business combination in the banking sector plays a significant role in any given economy as proponents purport that it is a catalyst for attaining economies of scale to realise competitive advantage through cost and quality differential. Opponents postulate that big banks abuse their position...

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Contingent Liabilities Arising out of Ex-Employees Retrenchment Litigations on Acquisitions in Malawian Banking Industry

Kampanje, Brian Phiri - 2022

Staff retrenchment is one the contentious legal battle an acquirer probably faces because acquired firms so often had run into financial problems and had to lay off some employees who might have been challenging employer’s decision during business combination process. Such legal exposure...

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Job Transitions and Employee Earnings After Acquisitions : Linking Corporate and Worker Outcomes

Arnold, David; Milligan, Kevin; Moon, Terry; Tavakoli, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper connects changes in employer characteristics through job transitions to employee earnings following mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Using firm balance sheet data linked to individual earnings data in Canada and a matched difference-in-differences design, we find that after M&As...

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From Wall Street to work floor : how private equity buyouts affect workers

Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - 2023

Private equity buyouts have sparked debates among labor unions and worker representatives on how they affect workers. This chapter provides an overview of academic evidence on how private equity buyouts affect workers. We review the theoretical reasons why employees could be affected and then...

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Bones of Contention - What Drives Mergers and Acquisitions in Emerging Markets?

Jensen, Camilla - 2010

The objective of the paper is to offer an evaluation of existing theories towards understanding the increase in mergers and acquisitions in an emerging market such as Turkey. A review of the existing theoretical and applied literature suggests that the neoclassical hypothesis (the q theory of...

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Genetic codes of mergers, post merger technology evolution and why mergers fail

Cuntz, Alexander (contributor) - 2008

This paper addresses the key determinants of merger failure, in particular the role of innovation (post-merger … introduce a model of process innovation where merged firms exibit intra-merger spillover of knowledge under different market … section we test the model implications for merger failure for M&A data from the US biotechnology industry in the 90s. We find …

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Potential Sources of Value from Mergers and Their Indicators

Schilling, Melissa A. - 2018

a merger to create value, it will usually be necessary that one or both parties is below minimum efficient scale or has … insight into a merger's true motives and its likelihood of creating value …

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