Mergers and Acquisitions as the Pillar of Foreign Direct Investment

Chapter 1. To Merge or to Acquire

1. To Merge or to Acquire
Aristidis Bitzenis, Vasileios A. Vlachos

Part I. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

2. Globalization and Foreign Direct Investment
Aristidis Bitzenis

3. Motives for, Barriers to, and Trends in Foreign Direct Investment
Aristidis Bitzenis

4. Toward a Unifying Model of Foreign Direct Investment Determinants
Aristidis Bitzenis, Pyrros Papadimitriou, Vasileios A. Vlachos

5. The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment
Aristidis Bitzenis, Vasileios A. Vlachos

6. Patterns of Multinational Enterprise—State Interactions in International Business
Yorgos Rizopoulos, Dimitrios Sergakis

Part II. Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As)

7. Regional Concentration of Mergers and Acquisitions
Aristidis Bitzenis, Pyrros Papadimitriou

8. Mergers and Acquisitions in Central and Eastern Europe and the Impact of the Global Economic Crisis
Christina Sakali

9. Motives, Empirical Results, and Contemporary Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions
Ioannis A. Tampakoudis, Demetres N. Subeniotis, Iordanis M. Eleftheriadis

10. A Survey of Recent Literature on the Determinants of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Activity
Vasileios A. Vlachos

11. The Legal Framework for Mergers and Acquisitions in the European Union and the United States
Tania Pantazi

Part III. Case Studies

12. Foreign Direct Investment in the FYR Macedonia: An Overview of Motives, Incentives, and Barriers
Aristidis Bitzenis, Valentina Nushkova, Vasileios A. Vlachos

13. Foreign Direct Investment in Perspective: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions in the Turkish Banking Sector
Panagiotis Kontakos

14. Foreign Direct Investment Determinants and Deterrents in Bulgaria and Albania: An Overview
Aristidis Bitzenis

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