A Brief Discussion on the Causes of Enterprise Merger and Acquisition Failure
Taking Wanda Group’s Acquisition of Legendary Pictures as an Example
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.210601.018How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Mergers and acquisitions, Macroscopic reason, Risk
- Abstract
In the past 20 years, with the development of economic globalization, the trend of mergers and acquisitions among enterprises has been significantly strengthened. Various types of enterprises are carrying out horizontal, vertical or cross-field strategic mergers and acquisitions, hoping to seize market share through synergies, reduce the resistance brought by competitors or improve the industrial structure of enterprises, so as to maximize the value of enterprises.[1] However, looking at the development history of mergers and acquisitions, the performance of most enterprises after mergers and acquisitions fails to meet the original expectations, and even some enterprises will be heavily in debt. In view of this phenomenon, most Chinese scholars pay attention to the micro pricing behavior of enterprises, and there are few researches on the macro level. Therefore, this paper adopts the method of combination of directional and quantitative, through Wanda’s failed acquisition of Legendary Pictures to illustrate the main macro reasons for the failure of most Chinese enterprises in M&A and the risk of M&A, and puts forward suggestions for the future development of M&A among enterprises.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Liu Jiaxin PY - 2021 DA - 2021/06/02 TI - A Brief Discussion on the Causes of Enterprise Merger and Acquisition Failure BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Enterprise Management and Economic Development (ICEMED 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 106 EP - 109 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210601.018 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210601.018 ID - Jiaxin2021 ER -