Growth Strategies and Financial Strategies in High Tech Company — A Case Study of Cisco

• Main Authors: Kuo Long Yeh, 葉國隆
• Other Authors: Chihuang Lin Ph. D.
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14741648739719017846

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 經營管理碩士學程 === 90 === Abstract This is the case study to investigate how Cisco has being successful to utilize strategies of mergers and acquisition for his corporate growth. It has structure breakdown to kernel to catch the truth. Starting from briefing about his amazing operation records during recent years, then we try to figure out what kinds of growth strategies which Cisco have applied in products planning and resources allocation to overcome undetermined business environments. It is mergers and acquisition strategies to fulfill his dream. We are interested in his motivations to choose such an external growth way and investigate how does Cisco make deals in mergers and acquisition. Then we get into how his financial strategies to support mergers and acquisition from the aspect of capital formation. We applied Pecking Order Theory to overview Cisco’s financial strategies. We are also interested in the reason why stock swap is so popular in mergers and acquisition in high technical industry. We evaluated mergers and acquisition performance with financial indexes from company-wise point of view. Finally we concluded his successful formula and constraints applied in business in Taiwan.