Management practices and M&A success

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Manthos D. Delis

Audencia Business School

Maria Iosifidi

University of Surrey - Surrey Business School

Pantelis Kazakis

University of Glasgow

Steven Ongena

University of Zurich - Department Finance; Swiss Finance Institute; KU Leuven; NTNU Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Mike G. Tsionas

Montpellier Business School

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Date Written: December 5, 2020

Abstract

We study whether management practices determine merger and acquisition (M&A) success. We model management as an unobserved (latent) variable in a standard microeconomic model of the firm and derive firm-year management estimates. We validate these estimates against benchmark survey data on management practices and by using Monte Carlo simulation. We show that our measure is among the most important determinants of value creation in M&A deals, substantially increasing the predictive power of models that explain cumulative abnormal returns. Thus, we offer a measure of management practices that identifies the best-performing M&As. Our results are robust to the inclusion of acquirer fixed effects and many control variables, and to several other sensitivity tests. We identify the Q-theory as the key mechanism driving our results.

Keywords: Mergers and acquisitions; Management practices; Acquirer returns

JEL Classification: G14; G34; J24

Suggested Citation

Delis, Manthos D. and Iosifidi, Maria and Kazakis, Pantelis and Ongena, Steven R. G. and Tsionas, Mike G., Management practices and M&A success (December 5, 2020). Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 20-102, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3743980 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3743980

Manthos D. Delis

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Maria Iosifidi

University of Surrey - Surrey Business School ( email )

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Pantelis Kazakis

University of Glasgow ( email )

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University of Zurich - Department Finance ( email )

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NTNU Business School ( email )

Norway

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London
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Mike G. Tsionas

Montpellier Business School ( email )

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