Diss. Nr. 3493 Wirtschaftswiss. St. Gallen. / Im Buchh.: Wiesbaden : Gabler, u.d.T.: Post Merger Integration von Logistikdienstleitern. Literaturverz.

Zugl.: Oestrich-Winkel, Europ. Business School, Diss., 2005.

Bachelor-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2008.

<p>Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are one of the fastest strategic options that companies choose to face the global competitive market. However, previous researches have highlighted the high rate of failure among M&A. In fact, the merging companies have to face the issue of cultural differences which is one of the common reasons of M&A failure, reinforced when it comes to cross-borders combinations. Indeed, both partners incorporate in the new merged company the national and the corporate cultures. So, in order to be successful, the leaders have to consider the importance and the influence of these issues meticulously during the post-merger integration process; at the same level as the synergies, business performance and profit improvement. In order to have a better understanding of the corporate culture mismatches issues, we will present first in the theoretical part three major sections: the merger and acquisition context, the corporate culture and its concepts and finally the leaders‟ role within the M&A integration process. The second part will be illustrated by two case studies: the Daimler-Chrysler (a failure) and the Cloetta Fazer (a success) mergers. The first case represents the complexity that leaders can meet in any international merger. It is the typical frame where the cultural issues have been underestimated. On the other hand, Cloetta Fazer is one of the successful mergers that can be taken as a reference for managers in future merger integration. In that case, the pre-merger phase played an important role in the integration process because each aspect of the cultural differences was identified and a new and shared corporate culture was implemented.</p>

Wiss. Hochschule für Unternehmensführung, Diss., 2005--Vallendar.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität St. Gallen, 2007.

A indústria bancária brasileira passou por uma onda de fusões e aquisições entre meados dos anos 1990 até o fim dos anos 2000. Para analisar os efeitos mercadológicos e intra-firmas destes eventos, este trabalho se propõe a uma abordagem abrangente acerca dos impactos aos acionistas dos bancos adquirentes através de um estudo de eventos sobre os retornos anormais; dos impactos em indicadores contábeis e financeiros destes bancos adquirentes; e procura por padrões contábeis e financeiros em instituições adquiridas. Como resultado, não encontra evidências de retornos anormais positivos ou negativos aos acionistas de firmas adquirentes no agregado, bem como não evidencia mutações significativas nos balanços destes bancos estatisticamente diferentes de um grupo de controle. No entanto, sob o viés de instituições adquiridas, há evidências de que quanto menor o retorno sobre os ativos, maior a chance de tornar-se alvo em uma operação de aquisição. / The Brazilian banking industry underwent a wave of mergers and acquisitions between the mid-1990s and the late 2000s. In order to analyze the marketing and intra-firm effects of these events, this paper proposes a comprehensive approach of the impacts on shareholders of acquiring banks through an event study on abnormal returns; impact on accounting and financial indicators of these acquiring banks; and search for accounting and financial patterns in acquired institutions. As a result, it does not find evidence of abnormal positive or negative returns to shareholders of acquiring firms in the aggregate, nor it shows significant mutations in the balances of these statistically different banks of a control group. However, under the bias of acquired institutions, there is evidence that the lower the return on assets, the greater the chance of becoming target in a takeover transaction.

A indústria bancária brasileira passou por uma onda de fusões e aquisições entre meados dos anos 1990 até o fim dos anos 2000. Para analisar os efeitos mercadológicos e intra-firmas destes eventos, este trabalho se propõe a uma abordagem abrangente acerca dos impactos aos acionistas dos bancos adquirentes através de um estudo de eventos sobre os retornos anormais; dos impactos em indicadores contábeis e financeiros destes bancos adquirentes; e procura por padrões contábeis e financeiros em instituições adquiridas. Como resultado, não encontra evidências de retornos anormais positivos ou negativos aos acionistas de firmas adquirentes no agregado, bem como não evidencia mutações significativas nos balanços destes bancos estatisticamente diferentes de um grupo de controle. No entanto, sob o viés de instituições adquiridas, há evidências de que quanto menor o retorno sobre os ativos, maior a chance de tornar-se alvo em uma operação de aquisição. / The Brazilian banking industry underwent a wave of mergers and acquisitions between the mid-1990s and the late 2000s. In order to analyze the marketing and intra-firm effects of these events, this paper proposes a comprehensive approach of the impacts on shareholders of acquiring banks through an event study on abnormal returns; impact on accounting and financial indicators of these acquiring banks; and search for accounting and financial patterns in acquired institutions. As a result, it does not find evidence of abnormal positive or negative returns to shareholders of acquiring firms in the aggregate, nor it shows significant mutations in the balances of these statistically different banks of a control group. However, under the bias of acquired institutions, there is evidence that the lower the return on assets, the greater the chance of becoming target in a takeover transaction.

This study analyzes the stock performance of bidding firms in China mainland and Hong Kong around the announcement of mergers and acquisitions transaction. The sample consists of 19 bidding firms in mainland and 11 bidding firms in Hong Kong. Hang Seng Index and Shanghai Composite Index are two proxies for market returns. The result that both average abnormal return and cumulative abnormal return to bidders in China mainland are positive whereas AAR to bidders in Hong Kong is positive in the announced date and CAR is negative during the event window (-5, +5). Compare to two regions, the announcement of mergers and acquisitions in mainland regarded as ‘good news’ to its stock price; however, it is not as good as for Hong Kong market. In the total method of payment, there are 8 transactions by stock and up to 22 deals by cash; that above 70% of acquisitions are pure cash payments in the entire sample. Through the regression model, the author finds regions of acquisitions affect the return because it is tested statistical significant at 5 percent significance level. And methods of payment do not affect abnormal returns and cumulative abnormal return to bidding firms during the event period.

Drawing on the organizational trust literature and research on postmerger integration, the authors develop a model that conceptually synthesizes the antecedents and consequences of trust in acquired organizations. The model proposes that the acquiring and target firms' relationship history, the interfirm distance, and the acquirer's integration approach will affect target firm member trust in the acquiring firm's management. Target firm member trust, in turn, may influence several sociocultural integration outcomes as well as postacquisition performance. The results of a case survey suggest that certain aspects of the relationship history and interfirm distance, such as the firms' collaboration history and preacquisition performance differences, are poor predictors of trust, whereas integration process variables, such as speed of integration, communication quality, and acquirer multiculturalism are major factors infl uencing trust. The implications for postmerger integration research and practice are discussed.