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The determinants of shareholders’ wealth of acquiring firms in India
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M. Selvam, S. Vanitha, J. Gayathri, E. Bennet, and P. Nageswari
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DOI:10.17265/1548-6583/2010.01.004
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Corporate restructuring has become a major component in the financial and economic environment all over the world. Industrial restructuring has raised important issues for business decisions as well as for public policy formulation. Since 1991, Indian industries have been increasingly exposed to both domestic and international competition and competitiveness. The companies started restructuring there operations around their core business there M & A. But M & A is an area of potential good and harm in corporate strategy including manufacturing industry. Therefore, an attempt has been made to analyze the security returns and to find out the net wealth increase or decrease to the shareholders of acquiring firms. In India, there are totally 58 manufacturing companies which have undergone mergers and acquisitions during 2000, 2001 & 2002. Thirty percentage from the total population was taken as sample size (i.e., 17 companies out of 58). The present study is mainly based on secondary data. The Market Model and Market Adjusted Returns Model analysis are used as tools of analysis.
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corporate restructuring; mergers and acquisitions; accounting ratios; cumulative abnormal returns; independent and dependent variables
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