Survey of Management View on Motives for Mergers and Acquisitions

Neelam Rani (), Surendra Singh Yadav () and Pramod Kumar Jain ()
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Neelam Rani: Indian Institute of Management Shillong
Surendra Singh Yadav: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Pramod Kumar Jain: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Chapter Chapter 5 in Mergers and Acquisitions, 2016, pp 133-146 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The objective of this chapter is to investigateInvestigate motives and trend of merger activities of Indian companies during the period 2003–15. A surveySurvey has been conducted in the present research work to understand the viewpoint of Indian managers regarding motivesMotives of undertaking mergers and acquisitionsMergers and acquisitions (M&A) (M&A). The surveySurvey findings show that the primary motivation for mergers is to achieve operating synergies.

Keywords: Economies of scale and scope; Synergy; Motives; Operational synergies; Market power; Cross-selling; Subsidiary (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-2203-6_5

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