基于CAS理论的企业并购后的品牌整合

企业并购后的品牌整合是在复杂多变的环境中进行的,品牌整合系统是一个复杂适应系统．CAS理论为企业并购后的品牌整合提供了新视角和方法论的指导。     

掏空或支持——来自我国上市公司关联并购的实证分析

本文以我国上市公司与其第一大股东或实际控制人的331起关联并购为研究样本，分析了上市公司大股东在关联并购中的可能动机，并检验了发生关联并购的上市公司的长期财务绩效与短期股票市场表现。实证研究表明，大股东在与其控制的业绩优良的上市公司的关联并购中具有较强的掏空动机，而对于业绩一般和较差的公司，大股东为了“保壳”或保“配”，会向上市公司注入优质资产或转让部分盈利性的股权，表现为一种“支持”。此外，关联并购并没有真正提高上市公司的财务绩效。     

我国跨国并购融资现存问题及对策初探

跨国并购已经成为近年来国际直接投资的主要方式。本文分析了我国跨国并购融资中现存的问题,提出了促进我国跨国并购融资发展的对策。     

企业购并中的财务问题探析

上个世纪80年代美国曾经出现所谓的＂购并风＂,在90年代形成愈演愈烈之势。近年来,随着我国社会主义市场经济体制的逐步发展和加入世界贸易组织,我国企业购并现象日益突出。对于企业购并中政府过分干预的问题,应实行政企分离,明确产权;对于企业购并中的财务风险,企业应积极应对并寻找解决之道;对于购并后的整合,企业应予以重视。     

BOOK REVIEWS

Purpose: Companies engage in business relationships for a variety of reasons, including specialization, product development, and building competitive networks. Research has demonstrated that mergers and acquisitions (M&As) may challenge ongoing business relationships. The purpose of this article is to investigate whether and how competition authorities consider business relationships when evaluating M&As.

Methodology: The article uses the documentation from 450 M&As reported to the Swedish competition authority to capture the way in which an authority evaluates M&As. The Swedish competition authority evaluation corresponds to other national and international evaluation procedures.

Findings: The findings indicate that the competition authorities neglect an important aspect of business life, namely companies forming business relationships. The competition authorities evaluate M&As on the basis of risk for price increases, and consequently disregard such issues as heterogeneity in demand and offerings, and values built into existing business relationships.

Originality/Value/Contribution: The article contributes to research on business relationships through exploring how a public authority deals with such relationships. It also contributes to research on mergers and acquisitions through examining how these activities are evaluated by competition authorities. Furthermore, the article contributes to competition research by reflecting on competition law concerning M&A regulations in relation to business relationships.     

Operating performance of European bank mergers

With very few exceptions the accepted viewpoint established by (predominantly) US research is that bank operating performance is not improved after merger. In this article we concentrate on European banks and investigate post-merger operating performance for 35 publicly listed bank mergers that were completed between 1992 and 1997. We find that industry-adjusted mean cash flow return did not significantly change after merger but stayed positive. We also find that the merger led to a significant decrease in profitability and capitalisation. Our key finding, in contrast to the US evidence, is that cost-efficiency ratios improved, although the improvement was not large enough to offset the profitability decrease. We also find that low profitability levels, conservative credit policies and good cost-efficiency status before merger are the main determinants of industry-adjusted cash flow returns and provide the source for improving these returns after merger.     

企业并购中的组织文化冲突和文化评估

本文立足于组织文化与企业并购的关系,阐述文化评估对于企业并购中组织文化冲突的意义。     

The Year in Review: Economics at the Antitrust Division 2003–2004

This paper covers the activities of the Economic Analysis Group (EAG), during 2003–2004. It describes the economic analysis undertaken by EAG in several important investigations, litigations, and administrative and appellate matters.The authors are, respectively, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and Economics Director of Enforcement, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. The views contained herein are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the U.S. Department of Justice.     

Measuring the Extent of Structural Remedy in Section 7 Settlements: Was the US DOJ Successful in the 1990s?

This paper suggests an innovative measure of structural relief obtained in a typical Section 7 settlement. The fraction of competitive overlap subject to divestiture as a condition of the settlement is modeled as a function of merger-specific efficiencies, the proportion of the deal held “hostage” to antitrust review, the merger’s anticompetitive potential, and other factors. The model is applied to data on 86 recent Justice Department cases covering the period 1990–2003 and to the subsample of 1990s cases. All data are collected from publicly available documents only. The government is found to secure larger divestitures when the cost to the acquirer of delaying the settlement is high. The resulting estimates are used to predict several out-of-sample observations. I would like to thank the General Editor and two anonymous referees for many helpful suggestions on earlier drafts of this paper. The remaining errors are mine.     

What they know vs. what they do: how acquirers leverage technology acquisitions

Existing research suggests that in acquisitions of small technology‐based firms by large established firms post‐merger integration both enables and hinders acquirers' efforts to leverage the technology of acquired firms. This apparent paradox can be resolved once we account for the qualitatively distinct ways in which acquirers leverage technology acquisitions. Integration helps acquirers use the acquired firm's existing knowledge as an input to their own innovation processes (leveraging what they know), but hinders their reliance on the acquired firm as an independent source of ongoing innovation (leveraging what they do). We also show that experienced acquirers are better able to mitigate the disruptive consequences of the loss of autonomy entailed by integration, though we find no evidence that they achieve greater coordination benefits from integration. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.