Management and takeover decisions

Manthos D. Delis, Pantelis Kazakis and Constantin Zopounidis

European Journal of Operational Research, 2023, vol. 304, issue 3, 1256-1268

Abstract: Firms with good management optimize and synthesize human resources, leadership, and technical and conceptual skills to enhance firm value. In this paper, we examine the role of management in merger and acquisition (M&A) decisions. M&A decisions are among the most important corporate decisions, on which firms spend a lot of resources and managerial qualities. We estimate management as a latent variable using a structural equation production model and Bayesian techniques. The key advantage of the Bayesian approach is the use of informative priors from survey-based management estimation methods, which are however available for a limited number of firms. Subsequently, we examine the effect of management on takeover events. We first show that management, on average, increases the probability of M&A deals. However, we also uncover a nonlinear U-shaped effect, which is consistent with the theoretical premise that poor management leads to many value-decreasing M&A deals, whereas good management leads to many value-increasing M&A deals.

Keywords: Finance; Management; Bayesian methods; Mergers and acquisitions; Nonlinear models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2022.05.005

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