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| Author: | Pettus, M. L. |
| Title: | Acquisition Strategy Within a Deregulated Environment: The Case of the U.S. Trucking Industry |
| Journal: | Advanced Management Journal
2002 : SPRING, VOL. 67:2, p. 42-48 |
| Index terms: | MERGERS MERGERS STRATEGY ENVIRONMENT USA SHIPPING INDUSTRY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Acquisitions are fraught with uncertainty, but successful ones may pave the way for growth. Leverage acquisitions can succeed by increasing efficiency and resource use, and can perhaps prepare the firm for competence-building acquisitions in the future. Newly deregulated industries often go through a consolidation phase with many mergers and acquisitions. Such was the case with trucking in 1980, and an examination of survivors versus nonsurvivors provides insights into acquisition strategies. Firms that never made competence-building acquisitions did not survive. The paper also provides a substantial list of references on this subject. |
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