The impact of mergers and acquisitions on company employment in the United Kingdom

By M. Conyon, Sourafel Girma, S. Thompson, P. Wright. 2002

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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What Determine Financial Analysts' Career Outcomes During Mergers? (2009, unknown): “7 For example, Mikhail et al. (1999), Hong et al.”
Assessing the Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on Firm Performance, Plant Productivity, and Workers: New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data (2010, unknown): “The ARD consists of plant-level records from the U.K. Annual Census of Production Siegel, 1987, 1990a, 1990b; McGuckin et al., 1998; McGuckin and Nguyen, 2001; Conyon et al., 2002a, 2002b, 2004; Gugler and Yurtoglu, 2004).”
Causes and Effects of Employee Downsizing: A Review and Synthesis (2010, unknown): “Although Budros (1997, 2000, 2004) observed that declining shareholder value induces downsizing, Hillier et al.’s (2006) study of layoffs in the United Kingdom surprisingly found a positive relationship between firm market value and employee reductions (suggesting that downsizing is often undertaken”
Shareholder Primacy and the Trajectory of UK Corporate Governance (2003, unknown): “Conyon et al. (2002) found evidence that hostile takeovers in the UK between 1987 and 1996 were associated with significant falls in both employment and output for the firms concerned, and concluded that the overall effect of such mergers was, after controlling for the change in output, to enhance ”
Cross-Border M&As and Innovative Activity of Acquiring and Target Firms (2016, methodology): “This procedure is often employed in the M&A literature (e.g., Gugler and Siebert, 2007; Conyon et al., 2002a,b).”
The Challenge of Integration: A Review of the M&A Integration Literature (2017, background): “Overall, the capacity C© 2016 British Academy of Management and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. of leaders successfully to steer integrations is a somewhat under-appreciated topic (cf. Fubini et al. 2007; Stahl and Mendenhall 2005).”
The effect of investor origin on firm performance: Domestic and foreign direct investment in the United States (2011, background): “…burgeoning literature in international economics has conducted causal analyses on foreign ownership and firm performance (Djankov and Hoekman, 2000; Conyon et al., 2001, 2002; Harris and Robinson, 2003; Bertrand and Zitouna, 2005; Girma, 2005; Benfratello and Sembenelli, 2006; Fukao et al., 2006;…”
Employment effects of foreign direct investment: New evidence from Central and Eastern European countries (2016, unknown): “To the extent that these assets are transferred to their affiliates, the latter enjoy higher productivity, needing less labor per unit of output (Holland et al. 2000, Conyon et al. 2002; Girma et al., 2002).”
The effects of mergers on company employment in the USA and Europe (2004, unknown): “Conyon et al. (2002a) report an average of 1.”
The Wage and Employment Effects of Leveraged Buyouts in the UK (2007, methodology): “Conyon et al. (2002a) report that the wage growth effects of mergers are generally statistically insignificant.”
The labor market effects of foreign owned firms (2004, background): “…whether this is the result of worker reallocation and changes in the firm’s human capital or as a result of increases in labor productivity (e.g., Conyon et al, 2002a, Girma and Gorg, 2003) 4 The main reason for this lack of knowledge is the difficulty in obtaining datasets that simultaneously…”