Mergers of Trading Companies and Causes of Their failure

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.29.4.8868" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.29.4.8868</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.29.4.8868" target="_blank" >10.5755/j01.ee.29.4.8868</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mergers of Trading Companies and Causes of Their failure

Original language description

This paper presents the results of research on the efficiency of mergers carried out in the Czech Republic. The aim of the research is to find out if the mergers have met the expectations of the management and the owners of the merging companies. The methodology of the solution is based on the determination of the success factors of mergers, the classification of the level achieved by the mergers, the separation of the successful ones from the unsuccessful ones, the identification of the problems and the formulation of the hypotheses. The object of the analysis is a representative sample of mergers of all those carried out in the Czech territory at the interval of 6 years. The effect of the company size on the success of mergers is also examined. The results were verified testing the hypotheses with empirical data. The tests performed with the data taken from financial statements of the recent 7 years have confirmed that failure of mergers can be expected in 55 %–68 % of the basic set, i.e. all mergers implemented in the monitored period, with 95 % reliability. Research has found no direct correlation between the size of the acquiring company and the success of the merger. The results of the questionnaire research lead us to the conclusion that the highest risk in merger implementation in the Czech conditions is maintaining of employees and customers; on the other hand, a merger that follows an acquisition and thus represents finishing of the transformation process of a company seems to be trouble-free.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50206 - Finance

Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP403%2F11%2F0447" target="_blank" >GAP403/11/0447: Analysis of tax and accounting procedures in mergers</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Engineering Economics

ISSN

1392-2785

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

29

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

397-404

UT code for WoS article

000448820500004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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