The performance of foreign and national take‐overs in Belgium

Emerald - 1997
JoeriGoethals1, HubertOoghe2
1Assistant at the Department of Corporate Finance, University of Ghent, Belgium. Hubert Ooghe is Professor of Corporate Finance at the Faculty of Economics and Applied Economic Sciences and Ernst & Young Professor of Growth Management at the Vlerick School of Management, University of Ghent, Belgium
2Professor of Corporate Finance at the Faculty of Economics and Applied Economic Sciences and Ernst & Young Professor of Growth Management at the Vlerick School of Management, University of Ghent, Belgium

Tóm tắt

Measures the influence a foreign take‐over has on the performance of a firm. More precisely, compares the performance of Belgian companies that have been taken over by Belgians with the performance of Belgian companies that have been taken over by foreigners. Concludes that foreign takeovers have no negative influence on the performance of companies. Moreover, it is clear that foreign companies take over better performing companies than their Belgian counterparts.

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