RESEARCH NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT-OBJECTIVES IN MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

被引:81
作者
WALTER, GA [1 ]
BARNEY, JB [1 ]
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[1] TEXAS A&M UNIV SYST,COLL BUSINESS,COLLEGE STN,TX 77843
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10.1002/smj.4250110107
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F [经济];
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02 ;
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A taxonomy of managerial goals in mergers and acquisitions is developed through a cluster analysis of data from interviews with merger and acquisition practitioners. These clusters of objectives overlap with some objectives cited for mergers and acquisitions in the academic literature, but the correspondence is not complete. Further analysis shows that different types of mergers and acquisitions are characterized by different managerial objectives. The implications of this research for the development of a contingency model of the relationship between managerial objectives and mergers and acquisitions are discussed. Copyright © 1990 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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