• Corpus ID: 212534724

Review of Major Companies Merger Failures in The First Decade of 21 st Century

@inproceedings{Shukla2014ReviewOM,
  title={Review of Major Companies Merger Failures in The First Decade of 21 st Century},
  author={Dr. Ram Shukla},
  year={2014}
}

• Dr. Ram Shukla
• Published 2014
• Economics

This paper proposes an explanation as to why some mergers fail, based on the information obtained from different research papers published by different authors worldwide. I propose that failure may result from informational asymmetries arising from the pre-merger period, and problems of cooperation and coordination within recently merged firms. I also believe that a partner may optimally agree to merge and abstain from putting forth any post-merger efforts, counting on the other partner to make necessary efforts. I argue that failure may also stem from cultural differences or political unwillingness within the country in case of crossborder mergers. This paper gives a brief idea of why different major mergers failed even after learning so much from the past mistakes.