Abstract: Merger and Acquisitions have been for long the most commonly used method of growth, diversification and many other corporate strategies. Along with that there has also been literary evidence that the M&A quite more than expected have been unsuccessful in attaining their primary goal or objectives and thus have been deemed as failures. This study tries to bring out firstly the actual failure rates as per evidence in research and then the reasons that have been cited as per various researches and put forth a comprehensive opinion in terms of both of these parameters to guide the future researches into solving these issues by highlighting its scale and also the crux of the actual problem that may have caused them.
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Performance, Failures in M&A, reasons for failure of M&A strategies.
Title: Mergers and Acquisitions: Failures and causes, an evidence-based approach
Author: Mohd Abdul Moid Siddiqui, Prof. Ayesha Farooq
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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