Megamerger sind seit Beginn der 90er Jahre zu einer wichtigen Strategie von international agierenden Medienunternehmen geworden. Ein Höhepunkt dieser Entwicklung ist der Merger der amerikanischen Unternehmen America Online und Time Warner im Jahr 2001 - zum damaligen Zeitpunkt der zweitgrößte...

We examine the relation between ownership structure and M&A target selection when family firms pursue public firm acquisitions. We find that family firm acquirers select targets that have lower Tobin’s Q relative to non-family acquirers. Our results suggest that family firms choose to acquire...

We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our...

The choice of a foreign firm’s entry mode into a host country is a strategic decision which impacts its future survival and success in other countries. By employing multinomial logit regression, this study aims to investigate the impact of the firm’s level of financial data on the entry mode...