Mergers and Acquisitions: Dissemination and Main Trends

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 經營管理研究所 === 96 === Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) has been extensively conducted for past three decades. There are a variety of orientations in discussing this subject during this period. This paper inductively and quantitatively performs the bibliometric analysis to explore t...

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Main Author: 游懿欣
Other Authors: 楊千
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rk66f9
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Summary:碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 經營管理研究所 === 96 === Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) has been extensively conducted for past three decades. There are a variety of orientations in discussing this subject during this period. This paper inductively and quantitatively performs the bibliometric analysis to explore the intellectual structure in the field of M&As. By using co-citation method, this research extracts four main streams from factor analysis: M&As-related, diversification, organizational learning perspective, and finance-related. And two perspectives of finance-related and non-finance-related identified from multidimensional scaling (MDS). Two new research interests are discovered from our result for future study. The analysis provides a clear and graphidescription to understand the dissemination and main trends of M&As.