Original scientific paper

INTERNATIONAL MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN CROATIAN ECONOMY

Tonći Lazibat
Tomislav Baković
Lukša Lulić

Abstract

Internationalization of business activities is a precondition for the survival of modern enterprises, no matter what their core business or the countries of origin are. The mentio-ned trend has been especially present in some business like telecommunications, banking, pharmacy, etc. One of the most dominant forms of internationalization in the nineties were mergers and acquisitions, whose number multiplied by fi ve times in ten years. The aim of this paper is to show in what measure the managers of Croatian companies recognize the importance of international mergers and acquisitions and how much they use them. In the beginning of the paper theoretical background of mergers and acquisitions together with latest world's trends on this matter are also shown.

Keywords

mergers; acquisitions; Croatian economy

Hrčak ID:

8015

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/8015

Publication date:

27.2.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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