Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:35:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Joao_Paulo_Lopes_Dias.pdf: 665197 bytes, checksum: 83302d673947e04fbc148dc6387c4d01 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-09-13 / This paper focus on the analysis of Controlling area role in the administrative work efforts for the consolidation phase of a company merger, by identifying and evaluating specific variants in the organizational restructuring and Managerial Accounting Systems implementation or adaptation. The research is supported by bibliographic study, through concepts around the central subject. Also is based on a consolidation case study of a worldwide leader food ingredients company, in three subsidiaries located in South America. Complementarily is applied a survey with these consolidation processes participants, focusing to reinforce and validate found evidences. The case study presents elements that try to identify and measure relevancy levels of some variants, as well as, systems operational characteristics, planning and management, resources, organizational structure, organizational culture and knowledge retention, which can be part of the company consolidation processes and put on evidence the Controlling role. Finally, the deviation of the evaluation between the subsidiaries point out to critical factors which can impact the consolidation phase, as well as, merged subsidiary structure, available investments in the subsidiary and the subsidiary administration leadership in South America. / O presente trabalho procura analisar a atua????o da Controladoria na condu????o dos trabalhos administrativos na fase de consolida????o de uma empresa, identificando e avaliando as vari??veis espec??ficas presentes na reestrutura????o organizacional e implementa????o ou adequa????o de Sistemas de Informa????es Cont??beis Gerenciais (SIG). O estudo est?? embasado em pesquisa bibliogr??fica, atrav??s de conceitua????es acerca do tema central. Al??m disso, aborda estudo de caso de consolida????es de empresa l??der mundial do ramo de ingredientes para alimentos, em tr??s subsidi??rias localizadas na Am??rica do Sul. Complementarmente, aplica-se question??rio junto a participantes desse processo, na tentativa de refor??ar e validar as evid??ncias encontradas. A abordagem deste estudo de caso apresenta elementos que procuram identificar e mensurar n??veis de relev??ncia de algumas vari??veis, tais como caracter??sticas operacionais de sistemas, planejamento e gerenciamento, recursos, estrutura organizacional, cultura organizacional e reten????o de conhecimento, que podem fazer parte do processo de consolida????o de empresas e que evidenciam o papel da Controladoria. Finalmente, as varia????es de avalia????es entre as subsidi??rias apontam fatores cr??ticos que podem impactar a fase de consolida????o, tais como, estrutura da subsidi??ria incorporada, investimentos ?? disposi????o da subsidi??ria e lideran??a administrativa da subsidi??ria na Am??rica do Sul.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:35:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Emerson_Nogueira_Sales.pdf: 3549816 bytes, checksum: f538ff67f65baa2727ce0452ad14fcab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-04-02 / In Brazil there were more than 6000 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the last ten years, these operations have been the subject of research on its effects, resulting in differing conclusions as to the consequences of these operations, especially in relation to the benefits to shareholders regarding the creation of economic value, motivating this research to seek possible theoretical explanations and empirical confirmation about F&A. Thus, the objective of this research was to investigate whether the M&A events occurred between years 2000 and 2010 in companies listed on the BM&FBOVESPA created shareholder value. Variables Tobin's Q and the EVA?? were used as proxies for value creation. Data of 83 transactions M&A were analyzed in 28 purchasing companies or resulting companies, seeking to observe the behavior of the variables after the announcement of the transaction within 36 months and for the remainder of the period (ten years) where there was data availability. Also, the data allowed comparison between results of the sample's averages and the averages of others companies listed on the BM&FBOVESPA non-sampled. The results showed symmetry with those of most previous studies demonstrating that M&A did not affect the creation of value for any of the studied variables and that the variables had negative growth over the first 36 months and had continued showing a decline when it was possible to analyze by remainder of the period, and showed symmetry with the results of the companies non-sampled / No Brasil ocorreram mais de 6 mil transa????es de fus??es e aquisi????es (F&A) nos ??ltimos dez anos, e estas opera????es tem sido alvo de pesquisas acerca dos seus efeitos, resultando em conclus??es divergentes quanto aos reflexos destas opera????es, principalmente a respeito dos benef??cios aos acionistas no tocante ?? cria????o de valor econ??mico, motivando esta pesquisa a buscar explica????es te??ricas poss??veis de confirma????o emp??rica acerca das F&A. Desta forma, o objetivo geral desta pesquisa foi investigar se as opera????es de F&A ocorridos entre 2000 a 2010 em empresas listadas na BM&FBOVESPA criaram valor para os acionistas. Foram utilizadas como proxies para cria????o de valor as vari??veis Q de Tobin e o EVA??. Foram analisados dados de 83 transa????es de F&A em 28 empresas adquirentes ou resultantes, buscando observar o comportamento das vari??veis ap??s o an??ncio das transa????es em at?? 36 meses e tamb??m para o restante do per??odo (dez anos) nos casos em que houve a disponibilidade dos dados, bem como permitiu a compara????o com os resultados das m??dias entre a amostra e as m??dias das demais empresas listadas na bolsa. Os resultados obtidos guardam simetria com aqueles da maioria dos estudos anteriores demonstrando que as F&A n??o influenciaram a cria????o de valor por nenhuma das vari??veis estudadas e que as vari??veis apresentaram varia????o negativa ao longo dos primeiros 36 meses e continuaram mostrando o decl??nio quando puderam ser acompanhados pelo restante do per??odo, e mostraram simetria com os resultados das empresas que n??o pertenciam ?? amostra

This dissertation identifies key determinants of outbound cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) by emerging Asian acquirers during 2001-2012. Using a zero-inflated model that takes into account different mechanisms governing country pairs that never engage in cross-border M&As and country pairs that actively participate in cross-border M&As, I uncover unique patterns for emerging Asian acquirers. Emerging Asian acquirers originate from countries with lower corporate tax rates than those countries where their targets are located. Furthermore, the negative impact of an international double tax burden is significantly larger than that found in previous studies. While country governance differences and geographical and cultural differences are important determinants of international M&As, relative valuation effects are muted. Coefficients of these determinants vary substantially, depending on whether targets are located in developing or advanced nations. Also, determinants differ considerably between active and non-active players in cross-border M&As. Moreover, comparisons of empirical models illustrate that estimating a non-linear model and taking into account both the bounded nature and non-normal distributions of fractional response variables lead to different inferences from those drawn from a linear model estimated by the ordinary least squares method. Overall, emerging Asian acquirers approach the deals differently from patterns documented in developed markets. So, when evaluating foreign business combinations or devising policies, managers or policymakers should consider these differences.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the possibility of political influence upon the Department of Justice merger decisions within the brewing industry. Political preference was measured by the congressional ratings of a liberal political action committee, The Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), thus giving a liberalness score. Regressions including the merger guideline variables and the political preference measurement were estimated with a logit model. After running numerous regressions, the addition of the political preference variable resulted in insignificance for otherwise significant 1968 and 1982 guidelines variables. These results may indicate an inability of the model to differentiate between political pressure on antitrust enforcement during the establishment of the 1968 and 1982 guidelines, or beyond the establishment of the guidelines. However, the Chair of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, the oversight committee for the Department of Justice, is found to be the most significant with liberalness having a positive impact upon the probability of DOJ merger litigation. / Graduation date: 1995

This dissertation consists of three independent essays. We briefly introduce these essays in chapter 1 and leave a comprehensive introduction to each essay. Chapter 2 considers a vertically separated industry where production takes time and vertical mergers shorten production time. We investigate the impact of vertical mergers on the downstream firms' ability to collude and show that vertical mergers facilitate downstream collusion. Chapter 3 provides a theoretical foundation for a puzzling empirical observation that advertising follows an inverted U shape for some new products. Chapter 4 analyzes an incumbent's response to a competitive entry. We show that if the quality of the entrant is uncertain, the incumbent can "jam" the quality signalling of the entrant. Finally, chapter 5 summarizes main conclusions of three essays. / text

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Thesis (M.B.A.: Business Studies Unit)-Durban University of Technology, 2008. xi, 96 leaves / The amalgamation of municipalities came into effect as a legislative requirement brought about a number of challenges for the local government. One such major challenge relates to the impact that these amalgamations will have on human resource practices of the various municipalities. Literature study reveals that during any merger or amalgamation, less attention is paid to the human element of a merger until the merger is almost complete. This lack of attention impacts negatively on the merger results. Like other municipalities, Ethekwini Municipality is a product of this legislative requirement. It was formed as a result of the amalgamation of different municipal entities that had different human resource practices. The problem facing eThekwini Municipality is the misalignment of human resources policies and their effect on the working environment. This study looks at the impact of this amalgamation on the human resources practices of the eThekwini Municipality. The sub-objectives of the study are: to ascertain employees’ perceptions of amalgamation; to determine whether employees believe that the human resources’ matters are handled in a manner that will bring about stability and equity in the workplace; and to establish whether different perceptions exist between employees of the former Durban Metro Central and those of the erstwhile entities.

Thesis (M.B.A.)-Business Studies Unit, Durban University of Technology, 2007 iv, 116 leaves / The research assesses employee readiness at eThekwini Electricity to form part of the Regional Electricity Distributor, which had been legislated by Government. The premise of the study is to investigate, identify and understand key factors likely to promote or inhibit effective readiness to change. If these factors can be measured by the organisation, an evaluation of the difficulty of the change effort can then be used to plan accordingly. By assessing readiness for change in the organisation, Top Management will be in a position to identify gaps that may exist between their own expectations about the change effort and those of other organisational members.

In this paper, I have attempted to highlight the problems that face investors, both black and white, in South Africa, especially in the light of the effects of the new legislation promulgated after apartheid was abolished. The legislation with which I am most concerned, is the legislation which was promulgated to promote the entry of blacks into the South African economy. In chapter one, I deal with the concept of empowerment from the constitutional view point and the problem of its definition. I also discuss out the relevant new legislation that in my argument I believe impacts on corporate activity and then deal with the distinction between an "arrangement" within its ordinary meaning in corporate law distinct from that as defined in the in the Companies Act 61 of 1973. In chapter two, I deal with the dangers facing an individual investor, the benefits of incorporation, the problem of the existence of money revolving schemes, and the effects of a lack of education amongst previously disadvantaged investors. In chapter three, I deal with joint ventures, their benefits, the effect of the Competition Act 81 of 1998 on joint and potential areas of conflict between black and white partners. Certain aspects of fraudulent and negligent conduct of directors are examined. In Chapter four, I deal with the methods of executing mergers and acquisition in relation to empowerment companies, their advantages and disadvantages, certain procedures necessary for the protection of investors like due diligence inquiries, the protection offered by the present company legislation and the common law and criticisms of the courts to protect shareholders. I look at a case study and special considerations in mergers and acquisitions. In chapter five, I look at the problem of capital in empowerment companies, the various methods that have been used to raise capital, and the loopholes in the law that affect some of these arrangements. I have focused specifically on special purpose vehicles and buyouts. In chapter six, I deal with the impact of government action and government policy on empowerment and I have compared this with what has happened in other countries. I conclude by recommending that the Black Empowerment Commission should be given teeth to take corrective measure towards empowerment. / Thesis (LL.M.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2001.

This thesis develops a range of prediction models for the purpose of predicting the acquisition of commercial banks in the European Union using publicly available data. Over the last thirty years, there have been approximately 30 studies that have attempted to identify potential acquisition targets, all of them focusing on non-bank sectors. We consider that prediction models developed specifically for the banking industry are essential due to the unusual structure of banks' financial statements, differences in the environment in which banks operate and other specific characteristics of banks that in general distinguish them from non-financial firms. We focus specifically on the EU banking sector, where M&As activity has been considerable in recent years, yet academic research relating to the EU has been rather limited compared to the case of the US. The methodology for developing prediction models involved identifying past cases of acquired banks and combining these with non-acquired banks in order to evaluate the prediction accuracy of various quantitative classification techniques. In this study, we construct a base sample of commercial banks covering 15 EU countries, and financial variables measuring capital strength, profit and cost efficiency, liquidity, growth, size and market power, with data in both raw and country-adjusted (i.e. raw variables divided by the average of the banking sector for the corresponding country) form. In order to allow for a proper comparative evaluation of classification methods, we select common subsets of the base sample and variables with high discriminatory power, dividing the sample period (1998-2002) into training sub-sample for model development (1998-2000), and holdout sub-sample for model evaluation (2001-2002). Although the results tend to support the findings of studies on non-financial firms, highlighting the difficulties in predicting acquisition targets, the prediction models we develop show classification accuracies generally higher than chance assignment based on prior probabilities. We also consider the use of equal and unequal matched holdout samples for evaluation, and find that overall classification accuracy tends to increase in the unequal matched samples, implying that equal matched samples do not necessarily overstate the prediction ability of models. The main goal of this study has been to compare and evaluate a variety of classification methods including statistical, econometric, machine learning and operational research techniques, as well as integrated techniques combining the predictions of individual classification methods. We found that some methods achieved very high accuracies in classifying non-acquired banks, but at the cost of relatively poor accuracy performance in classifying acquired banks. This suggests a trade-off in achieving high classification accuracy, although some methods (e.g. Discriminant) performed reasonably well in terms of achieving balanced overall classification accuracies of above chance predictions. Integrated prediction models offer the advantage of counterbalancing relatively poor performance of some classification methods with good performance of others, but in doing so could not out-perform all individual classification methods considered. In general, we found that the outcome of which method performed best depended largely on the group classification accuracy considered, as well as to some extent on the choice of the discriminatory variables. Concerning the use of raw or country-adjusted data, we found no clear effect on the prediction ability of the classification methods.