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Mergers and Acquisitions as the Pillar of Foreign Direct Investment

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  1. Aristidis Bitzenis
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  2. Vasileios A. Vlachos
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  3. Pyrros Papadimitriou
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. To Merge or to Acquire

    1. To Merge or to Acquire

      • Aristidis Bitzenis, Vasileios A. Vlachos
      Pages 1-6

  3. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Globalization and Foreign Direct Investment

      • Aristidis Bitzenis
      Pages 9-24

    3. Motives for, Barriers to, and Trends in Foreign Direct Investment

      • Aristidis Bitzenis
      Pages 25-40

    4. Toward a Unifying Model of Foreign Direct Investment Determinants

      • Aristidis Bitzenis, Pyrros Papadimitriou, Vasileios A. Vlachos
      Pages 41-65

    5. The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment

      • Aristidis Bitzenis, Vasileios A. Vlachos
      Pages 67-79

    6. Patterns of Multinational Enterprise—State Interactions in International Business

      • Yorgos Rizopoulos, Dimitrios Sergakis
      Pages 81-95

  4. Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Regional Concentration of Mergers and Acquisitions

      • Aristidis Bitzenis, Pyrros Papadimitriou
      Pages 99-119

    3. Mergers and Acquisitions in Central and Eastern Europe and the Impact of the Global Economic Crisis

      • Christina Sakali
      Pages 121-139

    4. Motives, Empirical Results, and Contemporary Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions

      • Ioannis A. Tampakoudis, Demetres N. Subeniotis, Iordanis M. Eleftheriadis
      Pages 141-157

    5. A Survey of Recent Literature on the Determinants of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Activity

      • Vasileios A. Vlachos
      Pages 159-194

    6. The Legal Framework for Mergers and Acquisitions in the European Union and the United States

      • Tania Pantazi
      Pages 195-205

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 269-301
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About this book

This comprehensive volume tackles all aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions activity - including regional concentration of M&As at a global level, the impact of the economic crisis, and theoretical concepts and practical applications.

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1 To merge or to acquire, by Aristidis Bitzenis and Vasileios A. Vlachos.

Part I: FDI

2 Globalization and FDI, by Aristidis Bitzenis.

3 Motives, barriers, and trends of FDI, by Aristidis Bitzenis.

4 Towards a unifying model of FDI determinants, by Aristidis Bitzenis, Pyrros Papadimitriou and Vasileios A. Vlachos.

5 The impact of FDI, by Aristidis Bitzenis and Vasileios A. Vlachos.

6 Patterns of MNE/state interactions in international business, by Yorgos Rizopoulos and Dimitrios Sergakis.

Part II: M&As

7 Regional concentration of M&As, by Aristidis Bitzenis and Pyrros Papadinitriou.

8 M&As in central and eastern Europe and the impact of the global economic crisis, by Christina Sakali.

9 M&As: Motives, empirical results and contemporary issues, by Ioannis A. Tampakoudis, Demetres N. Subeniotis and Iordanis M. Eleftheriadis.

10 A survey of recent literature on the determinants of cross-border M&A activity, by Vasileios A. Vlachos.

11 The legal regime on M&As in EU and US, by Tania Pantazi.

Part III: Case Studies

12 FDI in FYR Macedonia: An overview of motives and barriers, by Aristidis Bitzenis, Valentina Nuskova and Vasileios A. Vlachos.

13 FDI into perspective: Evidence from M&As in the Turkish banking sector, by Panagiotis Kontakos.

14 FDI determinants and deterrents in Bulgaria and Albania: An overview, by Aristidis Bitzenis.

About the authors

Aristides Bitzenis is Associate Professor of Global Entrepreneurship & FDI in the Department of International and European Studies at the University of Macedonia, Greece.

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