A study of why corporations acquire and merge: External and internal determinants of investment behaviour

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dc.contributor.advisor	Hunter, J	-
dc.contributor.advisor	Chen, Q	-
dc.contributor.author	Ocquaye, Nii Nortey Solomon	-
dc.date.accessioned	2023-11-23T11:21:51Z	-
dc.date.available	2023-11-23T11:21:51Z	-
dc.date.issued	2022	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/27712	-
dc.description	This thesis was submitted for the award of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University London	en_US
dc.description.abstract	From the geopolitical international landscape to the micromanagement of change, mergers and acquisitions fundamentally alter the future path of an organisation. History has provided us with countless examples of marriages made in heaven, such as the Disney-Pixar combination and divorces resulting in hell. Corporate divorces have been touted as leading to wealth destruction on a massive scale (Moeller, Schlingemann and Stulz, 2005), with the AOL-Time Warner deal most probably being the most famous to date. [...]	en_US
dc.publisher	Brunel University London	en_US
dc.relation.uri	https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/27712	-
dc.subject	Market for Corporate Control	en_US
dc.subject	Corporate Restructuring	en_US
dc.subject	Accounting & Finance	en_US
dc.subject	Event Study Analysis	en_US
dc.subject	Prediction Models	en_US
dc.title	A study of why corporations acquire and merge: External and internal determinants of investment behaviour	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
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