Factors Affecting the Success and Failure of Company Acquisition
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University of Miskolc Faculty of Economics Institute of Management Science Factors Affecting the Success and Failure of Company Acquisition Oscar Hermawan 2019 Contents Contents .............................................................................................................................................2 Table of Figures .................................................................................................................................4 Tables of tables ..................................................................................................................................4 Chapter 1 Introduction .....................................................................................................................5 1.1 Background ........................................................................................................................5 1.2 Research Question .............................................................................................................6 1.3 Research Objective ............................................................................................................6 1.4 Methodology ......................................................................................................................6 1.5 Scope and limitations ........................................................................................................6 1.6 Overview ............................................................................................................................7 Chapter 2 Literature Review............................................................................................................8 2.1 Definition ............................................................................................................................8 2.1.1 Definition of Merger ..................................................................................................8 2.1.2 Definition of Acquisition ...........................................................................................9 2.1.3 The Difference between Mergers and Acquisition .................................................9 2.2 Merger and acquisition approach and strategy ..............................................................9 2.3 Buyer’s perspective ........................................................................................................ 10 2.4 Seller’s perspective ......................................................................................................... 12 2.5 Merger and Acquisition phase ...................................................................................... 13 2.6 Successful and failed merger and acquisition .............................................................. 15 2.7 Post-merger and acquisition challenges ....................................................................... 17 Chapter 3 Methodology of Research ............................................................................................ 19 3.1 Case study research ........................................................................................................ 19 3.2 Data collection ................................................................................................................ 21 3.3 Case Study Database ...................................................................................................... 21 3.4 Data and document analysis .......................................................................................... 25 3.5 Case study analysis and representation ........................................................................ 26 Chapter 4 The Case Study of Successful Acquisition ................................................................. 28 4.1 Acquisition background ................................................................................................. 28 4.2 Acquisition timeline ........................................................................................................ 29 4.3 Acquisition motivations and perspective from both sides .......................................... 32 4.4 Post-acquisition period .................................................................................................. 33 4.5 Factors of success ........................................................................................................... 34 Chapter 5 The Case Study of Failed Acquisition ........................................................................ 37 5.1 Acquisition background ................................................................................................. 37 2 5.2 Acquisition timeline ........................................................................................................ 38 5.3 Acquisition motivations and perspective from both sides .......................................... 40 5.4 Post-acquisition period .................................................................................................. 41 5.5 Factors of failure ............................................................................................................ 44 Chapter 6 Comparison between the Two Case Studies .............................................................. 46 Chapter 7 Conclusions ................................................................................................................... 49 References ....................................................................................................................................... 52 Case Study References ................................................................................................................... 53 3 Table of Figures Figure 1 - Strategic Acquisition Objectives of the Buyer ................................................................ 11 Figure 2 - Merger and acquisition process flow diagram ................................................................. 15 Figure 3 – Chain of evidence ........................................................................................................... 20 Figure 4 - Organizational Chart of Microsoft in 2007 ..................................................................... 42 Figure 5 - Organizational Chart of Microsoft in 2008 ..................................................................... 42 Tables of tables Table 1 - Selling process and seller’s decisional path ...................................................................... 13 Table 2 - Combination phase in merger and acquisition .................................................................. 14 Table 3 - Best practices in Managing Combination ......................................................................... 15 Table 4 - Microsoft - LinkedIn case database, see reference for the source .................................... 24 Table 5 - Microsoft – aQuantive case database, see reference for the source .................................. 25 Table 6 - Data analysis and representation in case study research ................................................... 27 Table 7 - LinkedIn Acquisition timeline .......................................................................................... 31 Table 8 - aQuantive Acquisition timeline ........................................................................................ 40 4 Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background In the recent years, the trend of business merger and acquisition activity is getting common as one of the business restructuring strategies. The number of merger and acquisition activity is also expected to increase in the upcoming years. Throughout the merger and acquisition, both potential buyer and seller focus on creating values as acquisition may result in cost-cutting, business expansion or even becoming dominant in the market. During the period of merger and acquisition, dramatic changes will happen. That is why, good tactic and certain maneuver are required from the start of merger and acquisition until both companies integrated well. As the activity involved two or more different parties, the process is obviously complicated and challenging for the involved parties. Therefore, managing the strategy is critical as this restructuring activity would result to a successful business deal or to the worst thing that could happen is a failure. The total number of merger and acquisition process in the international scope has made some significant growth in the research field about merger and acquisition. Especially, when the economic development are shifting or the new era of emerging technologies. There will be more books, articles and scientific journal about merger and acquisition topic in the next future. The articles and books contain historical background of merger and acquisition and framework development to the detailed process within pre-combination and post- combination activities. That is some of the reasons why the thesis writer picked the merger and acquisition topic. Each of the merger and acquisition activities that already took place are unique. Because each company has its own motivation and objection to integrate to another company. And also, each leader or the chief of the company has its own style of doing the process of merger and acquisition. It is interesting to draw a line of what is happened during the transition changes. In practice, it still happens until today that merger and acquisition activity could lead to a failed one, even though articles and books reveals