top to the bottom decile of the measure of uniqueness of the corporate strategy of the post-merger company is associated … decile; they also have subsequent one-year-post-merger-closing profitability which is about 1.25% lower than their peer group … with more unique corporate strategy. These findings are stronger for a measure of uniqueness that compares the post-merger …

Takeover bidders in stock-for-stock mergers have strong incentives to increase their own pre-merger stock prices to … underexplored opportunistic behavior by takeover bidders …

Based on secondary data and interviews of executives, this paper reviews mergers during last decade in India. Based on … this review of mergers of companies in India, the author finds that there is a positive impact of mergers on earning per … share and therefore there is a tendency on the part of companies to go for merger with the ultimate objectives of gaining …

We examine takeover auctions when an informed bidder has better informationabout the target value than a rival and …

success of a merger, it is to be ascertained if there is financial gain from mergers. The present study is limited to a sample … of companies listed in BSE which underwent merger during the period of 2002-2005. It is proposed to compare the … performance after the merger event …

of India. Due to inadequate emphasis on the human resource aspect, employee resistance acted as impediment to merger of … context, process and consequences of the merger of State Bank of Indore with the largest nationalized banking firm, State Bank …