Search for dissertations about: "cross border mergers"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words cross border mergers.
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1. Contradicting Management Control Ideologies – A study of integration processes following cross-border acquisitions of large multinationals
Abstract : The 1990s and early 2000s witnessed some of the largest cross-border acquisitions in business history. This thesis studies how key management control actors experienced the integration processes following two cross-border acquisitions. READ MORE
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2. Essays on Informational Asymmetries in Mergers and Acquisitions
Abstract : This thesis covers issues related to financing in mergers and acquisitions. It studies the relationship between firms’ financing conditions and firms’ decisions to either buy or sell assets. READ MORE
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3. Essays on international trade and foreign direct investment
Abstract : The availability of firm level data in international trade started a very quickly developing theoretical literature that focused on the micro evidence and understanding its implications for aggregate productivity and welfare. The new models were dealing with individual firm characteristics determining entry and exit from foreign markets and the different ways in which firms chose to enter. READ MORE
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4. Firms, International Competition, and the Labor Market
Abstract : Essay 1: We propose a model of cross-border acquisitions in which multinational enterprises (MNEs) and private equity-firms (PE) compete over domestic assets. MNEs' advantage lies in firm-specific synergies, whereas PE-firms are good at restructuring. READ MORE
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5. Calibrating integration : studies on status, culture, knowledge and cooperation in acquisitions
Abstract : Acquisitions represent a common modus operandi of firm growth. Notwithstanding their lasting popularity, the majority of deals are reported to be unsuccessful. Given their prevalence and practical relevance, acquisitions have attracted scholarly interest from diverse academic disciplines and traditions. READ MORE