Paulo Rotela Junior, Paulo Rotela Junior, Edson de Oliveira Pamplona, Aneirson Francisco da Silva
Departament of Production, S?o Paulo State University, Guaratingueta, Brazil.
Institute of Production Engineering and Management, Federal University of Itajuba, Itajuba, Brazil.
DOI: 10.4236/am.2013.411213   PDF    HTML     8,244 Downloads   15,899 Views   Citations

Abstract

This article sheds light on how synergies arise through mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Enterprises go through the process of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) with the goal of improving performance, increasing efficiency and obtaining business synergy. Prior literature suggests that synergies could arise due to taxes, market power or efficiency improvements. This study evaluates the efficiency of M&A in Brazil among publicly-traded companies. We used models with multiple objectives from Goal Programming and Data Envelopment Analysis (GPDEA), employing accounting indicators as input and output variables, and thus evaluated the emergence of synergy gains. These models allow us to analyze and classify the M&A according to the efficiency obtained in such processes. Some of the M&A cases analyzed were mistakenly considered efficient when used traditional models. And, as expected, the GPDEA was proved to be superior to classical models; however it was noticed that few of the cases investigated were proved to be effective. We presented a new application for multi-objective approach that can be used to assess mergers and acquisitions. The dualapplication of GPDEA provided a greater understanding of efficiency generation in synergy creation by means of M&A.

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Merger and Acquisition; Multiple-Objective Optimization; Goal Programming; Data Envelopment Analysis; Synergy

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The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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