Mergers and Acquisitions: Dissemination and Main Trends

• 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

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.