Over the years much has been written about the industry life cycle and corporate life cycle, yet there has been remarkably little attention given to the relation between them and M&A, or why this relationship exists....Over the years much has been written about the industry life cycle and corporate life cycle, yet there has been remarkably little attention given to the relation between them and M&A, or why this relationship exists. Based on reviewing the industry life cycle and the corporate life cycle, we find the relationship between M&A and these life cycles, and then propose the life cycle of M&A. At last, we use the M&A life cycle to explain the characters of the merger waves over last 100 years.展开更多
文摘Over the years much has been written about the industry life cycle and corporate life cycle, yet there has been remarkably little attention given to the relation between them and M&A, or why this relationship exists. Based on reviewing the industry life cycle and the corporate life cycle, we find the relationship between M&A and these life cycles, and then propose the life cycle of M&A. At last, we use the M&A life cycle to explain the characters of the merger waves over last 100 years.