There is a lively debate on chief digital officers (CDOs). Some practitioners stress CDOs' critical role in recrafting digital strategies and accelerating digital transformation, while others predict their disappearance. Academics have also recently begun to study this new executive position and...

The internationalisation of the logistics industry has massively increased in the last three decades. Depending on the motivations behind foreign direct investments (FDI), a multinational enterprise (MNE) may invest in a country through horizontal, vertical and conglomerate integrations. The...

The paper offers a new approach for analysing capitalist development and crisis, tying together mergers and acquisitions, stagflation and globalization as integral facets of accumulation. The framework builds on the concept of differential accumulation, emphasizing the power drive by dominant...

The aim of this article is to investigate which critical success factors influence mergers and acquisitions. Although five hard success factors -- a professional acquisition search and due diligence, a realistic assessment of added value potentials, the right mix of financial sources, a detailed...

This study is aimed at analysing the determinants of premiums paid in European banking mergers and acquisitions (M&A). This analysis will highlight the reasons for the wave of bank M&A during the 1990s. The empirical study analyses a sample of 81 European banking M&A from 1994 to 2000. The...

This paper studies the stock market valuation of mergers and acquisitions in the Greek banking sector, from 1995 to 2002, using the standard event study methodology. The results suggest that the targets' shareholders earned significant abnormal returns upon the announcement of both horizontal...

This paper investigates the effects of horizontal acquisitions on the productive efficiency of target firms in the 1990s. Using French manufacturing firm-level data, we implement appropriate difference-in-difference estimation techniques associated to a matching propensity score procedure. We...

Mergers and acquisitions have had a significant impact on the banking industry in Nigeria and around the world, over the last decade. As a result, many bank employees have experienced numerous psychological effects of mergers and acquisition. Acquisition is often seen to have negative impacts on...

This paper discusses asymptotic normality of certain classes of M- and R-estimators of the slope parameter vector in linear regression models with long memory moving average errors, extending recent results of Koul (1992) and Koul and Mukherjee (1993). Like in the case of the long memory...