NMML Acquisitions: January 2002

NMML Acquisitions : March 2000

SELECTED , RECENT ACQUISITIONS July - August

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Towards a Learning Perspective on Knowledge/Technology Transfer through Corporate Acquisitions

Although corporate acquisitions are on the rise, not much is known about the micro processes of knowledge and technology transfer after the deal is closed. The goal of this present research is to add to this knowledge by reviewing the literature while addressing two questions: ‘what enables knowledge transfer in acquisitions’ and ‘what can organizations do to manage the knowledge transfer more ...

Analysing Mergers and Acquisitions in European Financial Services: An Application of Real Options

This paper applies real option pricing theory to the analysis of a sample of 15 recent mergers and acquisitions in the European Financial Services industry. Overall, it is found that those acquisitions were not on average overpaid. Nevertheless, further analysis, assuming the option premium equalled the takeover premium, shows that either the implicitly assumed volatility was too low, the assum...

In - depth : Managing acquistions

It has become conventional wisdom that acquirers suffer – by over-paying for targets and then suffering post-acquisition chaos. Indeed, there is almost a cottage industry among analysts in decrying acquisition problems, pointing to the ‘winner’s curse’ in which the high bidder over-pays and then fails to gain predicted synergies. At the same time, newspapers and magazines daily highlight failed...