Mergers and acquisitions in Canada : a background report / by Steven Globerman, Associate Professor, Faculty of Administrative Studies, York University.: Z1-1975/1-41-34E-PDF

"Mergers and acquisitions are a means of reallocating the ownership of resources in an economy. As such, the aim of public policy with respect to mergers, acquisitions, or other business reorganizations such as joint ventures, licensing agreements and partial acquisitions, is conceptually clear: to encourage those reorganizations which promise to have positive net social benefits and discourage those promising to have negative net social benefits"--The Policy Setting, page 1.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Canada. Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration, issuing body.
Title Mergers and acquisitions in Canada : a background report / by Steven Globerman, Associate Professor, Faculty of Administrative Studies, York University.
Series title Study ; no. 34
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Digitized edition from print [produced by Privy Council Office].
Includes bibliographical references.
The Policy Setting -- Theoretical Motives for Mergers -- Empirical Evidence on Mergers and Acquisitions -- Additional Evidence on Canadian Merger Activity -- Conclusions and Policy Considerations.
Publishing information Mississauga, Ontario : Phase I Printing Limited, April 1977.
Minister of Supply and Services Canada, ©1977
Author / Contributor Globerman, Steven, author.
Description 1 online resource (vi, 86 pages).
Catalogue number
  • Z1-1975/1-41-34E-PDF
Subject terms Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Canada.
Industrial concentration -- Canada.
Entreprises -- Fusion -- Canada.
Concentration d'entreprises -- Canada.
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