Creating Value from Mergers and Acquisitions: The Challenges, 2nd edition

Published by FT Publishing International (July 21, 2011) © 2011

  • Sudi Sudarsanam Cranfield School of Management
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Title overview

Hallmark Features

  • Short illustrations in every chapter highlight standard practices and explain complex issues
  • User-friendly tables and figures make complex empirical data easier to comprehend.
  • Most chapters contain a short case study to highlight important issues.
  • Case studies and review questions enable further discussion and study
  • Chapter overviews
  • Provides a balanced treatment of M&A, drawing upon the conceptual, empirical, and practitioner perspectives
  • Emphasises critical examination and empirical validation of theoretical predictions

Table of contents

  1. 1 Introduction

Part One HISTORIC, CONCEPTUAL AND PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

  1. 2 Historical overview of mergers and acquisitions activity
  2. 3 Alternative perspectives on mergers
  3. 4 Are acquisitions successful?

Part Two CORPORATE STRATEGY AND ORGANIZING FOR ACQUISITIONS

  1. 5 Sources and limits of value creation in horizontal and related mergers
  2. 6 Sources and limits of value creation in vertical mergers
  3. 7 Sources and limits of value creation in conglomerate acquisitions
  4. 8 Cross-border acquisitions
  5. 9 Strategic alliances as an alternative to mergers and acquisitions
  6. 10 Corporate divesture
  7. 11 Leveraged buyouts
  8. 12 Acquisition decision process: organizational, psychological and governance perspectives
  9. 13 Target selection for acquisition

Part Three DEAL STRUCTURING AND NEGOTIATION

  1. 14 Target valuation
  2. 15 Accounting for mergers and acquisitions
  3. 16 Paying for the acquisitions
  4. 17 Antitrust regulation
  5. 18 Regulating takeover bids
  6. 19 Advisors in takeovers
  7. 20 Bid strategies and tactics
  8. 21 Defences against takeovers

Part Four POST-ACQUISITION INTEGRATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING

  1. 22 Organizational and human aspects of post-acquisition integration
  2. 23 Post-acquisition audit and organizational learning
  3. 24 Meeting the challenges of mergers and acquisitions

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