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Addresses the key factors of M&A success and failure. Readers will learn the art and science of M&A valuation, deal negotiation and bargaining, and a framework for considering trade-offs in an effort to optimize the value of any M&A deal.

Globalization, new technology and expanding markets stretch the resources of companies and make it harder to survive. Forming an alliance with another company to share resources is increasingly becoming the answer. This book is a guide to forming the right alliance with the right company and making the partnership work. Case studies are used to illustrate successes and failures in real terms. These include Rover and Honda, ICL and Fujitsa, and Dowty-Sema.

Readers will find articles by more than 60 of the leading M&A practitioners, plus principles and techniques illustrated with "Fortune 500" case studies. New topics include the restructuring of debt-laden corporations, issues impacting medium-sized companies, and the implications of global markets. Updated and expanded areas include new cases to illustrate growth and diversification, an in-depth treatment of selling M&As, updated tax information and banking arrangements, and more.

Security metrics is the application of quantitative, statistical, and/or mathematical analyses to measuring security functional trends and workload. In other words, tracking what each function is doing in terms of level of effort (LOE), costs, and productivity. Security metrics management is the managing of an assets protection program and related security functions through the use of metrics. It can be used where managerial tasks must be supported for such purposes as supporting the security pr...

Accounting expert Steven Bragg equips you with a working knowledge of the complete M&A process throughout Mergers and Acquisitions: A Condensed Practitioner's Guide , with comprehensive, reader-friendly, and straightforward advice on principal business terms, as well as the due diligence process, the customary contractual provisions, legal background, and how-to's applicable to business acquisitions. Destined to become a well-thumbed addition to every manager's library, this essential guide add...

Strategic alliances offer organisations an alternative to organic growth or acquisition when faced with the need to develop the business to a new level, innovate in terms of products or services or significantly reduce costs. The Strategic Alliance Handbook is a clear and complete guide to the nuts and bolts of the process behind successful collaborations. The book enables readers to understand the commercial, technical, strategic, cultural and operational logic behind any alliance and to establ...

A classic work completely updated and revised Corporate restructurings are again a powerful business reality in the early 00s. Now, the definitive source and bestselling guide to the ins-and-outs of the subject, the new Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings, Third Edition explains how each form of restructuring works and the laws governing them, as well as insights on which form of restructuring is most beneficial, illustrated with numerous case studies examining mergers within the...

Among the significant repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic is escalating public questioning of the desirability and sustainability of the market economy and the societal role of business. These concerns are linked to merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, with significant disruptive consequences for stakeholder relationships and their management. This book explores these changes, moving away from the traditional focus on the financial and strategic aspects of M&A and its rational, technocra...

Hi-tech industries that focus on developing patterns of innovation as part of their management strategies can increase their competitiveness. However, this synergy between knowledge and experience and its resulting creativity can make them targets for takeover bids. This though destroys the continuity that is often an important factor in successful innovation processes and as they become integrated into larger and larger conglomerates, they lose the advantages which made them attractive in the f...

This text tells the true story of the merger between two of the world's biggest car companies, which created a global giant, in 1998. Combining narrative with first-hand analysis, David Waller uses the example to present tangible lessons for managers involved in global business.