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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Serial acquisitions without synergies : a qualitative study on the Bergman & Beving sphere

Stanser, Theodor, Marken, Jakob January 2024 (has links)
The Bergman & Beving sphere is a group of Swedish companies that have been successfulduring the last decades as serial acquirers. This study examines how the Bergman & Bevingsphere operates and how management makes capital allocation decisions; this has beenexamined through interviews with key individuals and large owners within these companiesand has by that taken a qualitative approach to the research questions outlined.The business model of the Bergman & Beving sphere revolves around continuously acquiringniched companies, with a long track record of profitable growth and with a culture that alignswith that of their own. What distinguishes them from many serial acquirers is that they do nottry to integrate the acquired company into a bigger one and/or find synergies between them,but instead, they operate with a highly decentralized model where the companies actindependently. The group has for a long time used internal financial metrics, with theirtrademark metric being Profit/Working capital (P/WC), to guide their subsidiaries and aidmanagement in capital allocation decisions.

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