Given the recent traumatic events in the world's banking industry it is important to understand what drives bankers to create larger and larger, often multinational, banking groups. In this paper we investigate whether the targets in cross-border bank M&As are materially different from those...

A modern view of stakeholder theory considers that ethical behaviour and profit are not contradictory. Under this framework and in the Merger and Acquisitions context we would like to investigate whether companies with well-developed Corporate Social Responsibility engage stakeholders in a...

In the past fifteen years, cross-border mergers and acquisitions had an ever increasing role in the process of bank internationalization. Although a consensus view has developed on the determinants of a bank's decision to expand abroad and on the determinant of the patterns of expansion, the...