Evaluation and Analysis of M&A’s Impact on Firm Performance in Pharmaceutical Industry
At present, mergers and acquisitions play a very important role in firm’s business strategy. As a result, more and more companies attempt to engage in M&A activities for further development. In this dissertation, the aim is to evaluate and analyze the M&A’s impact on pharmaceutical companies...
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| description | At present, mergers and acquisitions play a very important role in firm’s business strategy. As a result, more and more companies attempt to engage in M&A activities for further development. In this dissertation, the aim is to evaluate and analyze the M&A’s impact on pharmaceutical companies’ performance.
Firstly, some background of M&A would be introduced in the introduction chapter like its definition, historical developments and its types. Then in the literature review chapter, the motives for engaging in M&A, determinants of companies' performance following M&A and empirical studies of M&A are discussed and some M&A theories are presented as well.
For the methodology and analysis parts, the accounting analysis and the event study are used in turn to prove the M&A theories mentioned in the literature review. Finally, the conclusion of this dissertation is reached. |
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| spelling | nottingham-265622017-10-19T13:30:27Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26562/ Evaluation and Analysis of M&A’s Impact on Firm Performance in Pharmaceutical Industry Sheng, Qiyuan At present, mergers and acquisitions play a very important role in firm’s business strategy. As a result, more and more companies attempt to engage in M&A activities for further development. In this dissertation, the aim is to evaluate and analyze the M&A’s impact on pharmaceutical companies’ performance. Firstly, some background of M&A would be introduced in the introduction chapter like its definition, historical developments and its types. Then in the literature review chapter, the motives for engaging in M&A, determinants of companies' performance following M&A and empirical studies of M&A are discussed and some M&A theories are presented as well. For the methodology and analysis parts, the accounting analysis and the event study are used in turn to prove the M&A theories mentioned in the literature review. Finally, the conclusion of this dissertation is reached. 2013-09-18 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26562/1/Dissertation.pdf Sheng, Qiyuan (2013) Evaluation and Analysis of M&A’s Impact on Firm Performance in Pharmaceutical Industry. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) |
| spellingShingle | Sheng, Qiyuan Evaluation and Analysis of M&A’s Impact on Firm Performance in Pharmaceutical Industry |
| title | Evaluation and Analysis of M&A’s Impact on Firm Performance in Pharmaceutical Industry |
| title_full | Evaluation and Analysis of M&A’s Impact on Firm Performance in Pharmaceutical Industry |
| title_fullStr | Evaluation and Analysis of M&A’s Impact on Firm Performance in Pharmaceutical Industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation and Analysis of M&A’s Impact on Firm Performance in Pharmaceutical Industry |
| title_short | Evaluation and Analysis of M&A’s Impact on Firm Performance in Pharmaceutical Industry |
| title_sort | evaluation and analysis of m&a’s impact on firm performance in pharmaceutical industry |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26562/ |