ACADEMICIA: AN INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH JOURNAL
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 1

A study of considerations for formulating successful m & a proposals

1Department of Business Administration, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudic Arabia Email id: Thejo11@gmail.com

Online published on 22 February, 2021.

Abstract

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) holds a major role in corporate restructuring and growth of companies in the post-globalisation era. 'Most Mergers Fail' despite all efforts to make it successful. This study intends to study what all factors should be considered by Organisations while drafting the M&A proposal. Initially, it is studied why majority of the mergers fail as it may help policy makers to take of CSFs while drafting M&A proposals. Seven CSFs were suggested for consideration while drafting M&A proposals. The study ends with recommendations based on the study for successful M&A proposals.

Keywords

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Critical Success Factors (CSF), Acquisition purchase premiums (APP), Merger wave, Value Gap (VG)