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Acquisition Strategies in European Emerging Markets

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Klaus E. Meyer

    1. Reading University Business School, Reading, UK

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  2. Saul Estrin

    1. Business and Society, London Business School, UK

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. FDI in European Emerging Economies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Acquisition Strategies in European Emerging Markets

      • Klaus E. Meyer, Saul Estrin
      Pages 3-10

    3. Institutional Contexts and FDI Trends in European Emerging Economies

      • Camilla Jensen
      Pages 11-26

    4. The Changing Patterns of Foreign Direct Investment: Survey Insights

      • Klaus E. Meyer, Delia Ionasçu, Przemysław Kulawczuk, Anna Szcześniak, Zoltán Antal-Mokos, Krisztina Tóth et al.
      Pages 27-39

  3. Acquisitions: Business Strategy and Economic Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Acquisition as an Entry and Growth Strategy

      • Klaus E. Meyer
      Pages 43-57

    3. Synergy Management in Acquisitions

      • Krisztina Tóth
      Pages 58-71

    4. M&A in Mobile Telephony: Industry Dynamics

      • Jamie Anderson, Zoltán Antal-Mokos
      Pages 72-83

    5. Institutional and Regulatory Barriers to Foreign M&A in Central Europe

      • Mieczysław Bąk, Przemysław Kulawczuk, Anna Szcześniak
      Pages 84-93

    6. Acquisitions, Institutions and Policy

      • Klaus E. Meyer, Saul Estrin
      Pages 94-113

  4. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. The Evolution of the Hungarian Mobile Communications Market and T-Mobile Hungary

      • Zoltán Antal-Mokos, András Bauer
      Pages 117-132

    3. The Purchase of a Monopoly: France Telecom Acquires TPSA

      • Przemysław Kulawczuk
      Pages 133-146

    4. Building Strategic Alliances to Maintain Independence: Bank Millennium and Banco Comercial Português

      • Anna Szcześniak
      Pages 147-160

    5. Building Profit from Losses: K&H and ABN AMRO

      • Krisztina Tóth
      Pages 161-175

    6. Creating a Nordic Bank: SEB-Vilniaus Bankas

      • Kristina Šimkutė
      Pages 176-189

    7. The Emergence of the Central European MNE: MOL

      • Zoltán Antal-Mokos, Krisztina Tóth
      Pages 190-202

    8. Growth through Multiple Acquisitions: Carlsberg Breweries in Poland

      • Mieczysław Bąk
      Pages 203-216

    9. Purchase the National Brand no. 1 to Rescue Entry Strategy? The Acquisition of Wedel by Cadbury-Schweppes

      • Przemysław Kulawczuk
      Pages 217-231
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This study investigates mergers and acquisitions in emerging economies. Combining a questionnaire survey with eleven case studies in Poland, Hungary and Lithuania, it develops a dynamic perspective of international acquisitions, and a refined acquisition typology. Implications are derived for managers and policy makers, and for scholarly research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Reading University Business School, Reading, UK

    Klaus E. Meyer

  • Business and Society, London Business School, UK

    Saul Estrin

About the editors

JAMIE ANDERSON Senior lecturer in Strategy and Innovation, European School of Management and Technology, Germany ZOLTAN ANTAL- MOKOS Associate Professor of Strategy, European School of Management and Technology, Germany MIECZYSLAW BAK Institute for Private Enterprise and Democracy, Poland ANDREAS BAUER Professor of Marketing, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary VALDONE DARSKUVIENE Associate Professor of Finance, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas and Baltic Management Institute, Vilinius, Lithuania DELIA IONASCU Assistant Professor of Economics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark CAMILLA JENSEN Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark PRZEMYSLAW KULAWCZUK Department of Economics, University of Gdansk and Institute for Private Enterprise and Democracy, Poland ANNA SZCZESNIAK Institute for Private enterprise and Democracy, Poland KRISTINA SIMKUTE Research Assistant, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark KRISZTINA TOTH Senior Assistant Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

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