文档介绍：Winning the Merger Endgame: A Playbook for Profiting
from Industry Consolidation
by Graeme K. Deans, Fritz ISBN:007140998x
Kroeger and Stefan Zeisel
McGraw-Hill © 2003 (242 pages)
Readers of this text learn the consolidation cycles through
which industries pass, how to identify where their industry
lies, how to determine anizational changes they
need to make and when they need to make them, and much
more.
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Table of Contents
Winning the Merger Endgame—A Playbook for Profiting from Industry
Consolidation
Foreword
Preface
Part I - Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Consolidation Landscape
Chapter 2 - Finding Order in Chaos: Rules and Logic of the Endgame
Part II - The Four Stages of the Endgame
Chapter 3 - The Opening Stage
Chapter 4 - The Scale Stage
Chapter 5 - The Focus Stage
Chapter 6 - The Balance and Alliance Stage
Part III - New Imperatives and Future es
Chapter 7 - CEO Strategies for Endgames
Chapter 8 - The Stock Market Connection
Chapter 9 - The Endgames Vision of 2010
Appendix - Endgames Methodology and M&A Transactions 1988 to 2001
Index
List of Figures
List of Sidebars
Back Cover
No one begins playing a game without first knowing the basic rules. In the mergers and acquisitions
game, however, it seems that there are no rules: movement is chaotic and the undisputed leader one
day might be gone the next. Despite years of experience and intense due diligence by the most
seasoned executives, knowing how and where to make the next move is often little more than an
educated guess.
But there are rules, and there are winning strategies—and Winning the Merger Endgame reveals
both. It offers a straightforward analysis of the relentless and inevitable drive toward industry
consolidation. The core of this analysis emerges in five maxims—the fundamental rules of the game:
All industries consolidate and follow a similar course
Merger actions and consol