What is it about?

The key purpose behind for mergers by a company is to increase the value of the firm and hence its shareholders. The study attempts to see if this statement finds some evidence in Indian context.

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Why is it important?

Why companies for mergers, if research in general indicates that there is no value created by mergers? The paper provides some explanation to this question.

Perspectives

The financial measures' limitations to capture the impact of mergers provides for consideration of alternate measures of value creation such as social value creation.

Raj Kumar Kovid

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This page is a summary of: Post‐merger corporate performance: an Indian perspective, Management Research News, January 2009, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/01409170910927604.
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