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The video game company is being acquired for a record-breaking US$55 billion. Despite being named ‘The Worst Company in America’, why is it so in-demand?
South Africa’s use of competition law to achieve socio-economic objectives is justified, but its implementation lacks coherence and adds undue costs for companies.
High levels of market concentration lead to price rises and more ultra-processed food.
On one hand, the government has just waved through one of the biggest banking mergers of the last 20 years. On the other, they’ve been waving the big stick at Australia’s supermarket oligopoly.
The new retail giant will control more than 26% of the Australian pharmacy market.
Superannuation funds keep merging, on the basis that bigger is better for members. But our research suggests this isn’t necessarily true.
The UK must refocus its efforts to attract investment post-Brexit, but here’s why it’s still ‘open for business’.
To complete his deal, Elon Musk now needs the nod from a majority of Twitter’s shareholders and US corporate regulators.
Twitter adopted a so-called poison pill to make it much harder for Musk to take over the company.
Big mergers are hugely complex, and not always popular with shareholders.
A handful of banks now dominate the US financial sector. This consolidation has resulted in higher costs for consumers and small businesses and put the economy at greater risk of a financial crisis.
Plus a new technique to protect birds from predators – using fake smells. Listen to episode 10 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Combine years of ludicrous leverage and the pandemic collapse, and many companies are living on borrowed time.
The T-Mobile-Sprint merger is the latest example of weakened enforcement of antitrust laws, which reduces competition and exacerbates already-record levels of inequality.
Research shows how decision making by investors is affected by the one-hour clock change.
Competition policy in Australia is undermined by not knowing if it is right to let the vast majority of corporate mergers go ahead.
Sainsbury’s faces tough times ahead following the blocking of its merger with Asda.
It’s a bold move from outgoing Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi.
Australian companies have been employing many and varied takeover defences this year, including some that defy convention.
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Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, University of Essex
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Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW
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Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Associate Dean (Teaching), Director of the Glendonbrook Institute for Enterprise Development, Loughborough University
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Professor of Finance, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Strategy, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Northern Michigan University
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Professor of International Business Strategy & Emerging Markets at the University of Sussex Business School, and the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town
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Visiting Scholar, Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment, University of Westminster
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Professor of Strategy and Innovation, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
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Professor of Leadership and Organisational Behaviour, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
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