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Twelve essays reflect various aspects of mega-mergers. They discuss the history of acquisitions during the last hundred years (and during the last ten especially), industry consolidation, bank mergers, risk management systems, and the difficulties mergers face. Case studies detail mergers in Switzer

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Exploring work group members' behaviors and emotions during the simulation, Astrachan addresses such issues as the similarities among groups within the company and the effects of mergers on various employee groups.

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Whether foreign investment by transnational and multi-national corporations alleviates or perpetuates underdevelopment is the subject of this volume. Multi-national corporations that inhibit building of indigenous institutions and other structures leading to self-reliance and economic growth impede rather than stimulate development.

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This study provides a timely and useful benchmark for analysis of the effects of the recently negotiated North American Free Trade Agreement on investment flows.

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Multinational enterprises are either the heroes or the villains of the globalized economy. This book assesses the determinants of multinationals' actions, investigating why their activity has expanded so rapidly, and why some countries have seen more such activity than others. It is intended for students and professionals.

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An inclusive treatment of political risk assessment aimed at a readership consisting of students of international business and executives of multinational firms concerned with this issue.

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What is the true nature of multinationality and what are its impacts on firm performance This text considers these questions through an examination of the nature of multinationality where firm performance is expressed by firm value, financial performance and corporate financing.

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The thesis here is that since multinationality impacts the conduct of corporate operations, it affects and explains the relationships between earnings, efficiency, disclosure quality, and market variation. Riahi-Belkaoui (accounting, U. of Illinois, Chicago) argues that understanding of multinationa

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Although the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in developing countries has been the subject of intense academic interest, few studies have attempted a systematic examination of relations between small mineral-producing Third World countries and the MNCs involved in the extraction of these mineral resources.

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"It is no secret that corporate America is in trouble--as are labor unions--and a principal reason is our archaic system of labor-management relations, which excludes labor from participating in, and sha"

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They study the role of nonprofits in local governing coalitions, the potential of nonprofits to replace social welfare programs, their efforts to restructure key elements of the local political process, and the unanticipated internal impacts of the changing roles of nonprofit organizations in the urban community.

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This book provides substantial profiles of individuals and families who made significant contributions to the American philanthropic tradition from the 1600s to the present.

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With the rise of advanced technology firms, government's role in nurturing business may be changing. Nurturing Advanced Technology Enterprises is the only book to offer in-depth and comprehensive analysis of all aspects of advanced technology development.

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Tomer integrates economic analysis with behavioral and humanistic perspectives into a discussion of a new economic concept: organizational capital. Organizational Capital integrates organizational behavior with economic theory and offers a new unifying economic concept: organizational capital.

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The purpose of this interdisciplinary book on the implementation of mergers is to point to the importance of organizational culture and people in the successful management of mergers.

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This book analyzes the relationship between organization restructuring and corporate downsizing and a firm's perceived social responsibility and responsiveness.

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This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of public ownership in the United States, arguing that it is more widespread, popular, and efficient than is commonly understood. -- .

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The story of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., is exciting--full of struggle, determination, crisis, and heroic endeavor. The history of Air Products will be of value to everyone interested in the industrial gas and chemical industries, business history, entrepreneurial history, and American studies.

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This is a practial how-to guide to planning and concluding overseas acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, and similar ventures. The author begins with a description of the planning process including strategic vs. He then discusses external issues such as currency, trade protectionism, and political and government intervention.

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Explaining how politics shapes corporate governance, this book combines a theoretical model on this political interaction, with statistical evidence from thirty-nine countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America and narratives of country cases.

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This work surveys the situation in Central Europe in the early 1990s. This was the period when the governments of Poland, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Slovenia and other independent states of former Yugoslavia, were experimenting with privatisation and economic reform.

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The post-communist European countries have faced enormous political and economic problems in attempting the transformation to a market oriented economy through two of the most important channels influencing this processprivatization and foreign investments.