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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Main Author: Sheng, Qiyuan
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26562/
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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)
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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/