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What is Merger and Acquisitions

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Handbook of Research on Strategic Developments and Regulatory Practice in Global Finance
Merger is the legal integration of two or more companies into one new entity. Merging businesses pool their resources to establish a new business entity. Parties to the merger share the risk and profit of the new enterprise. Mergers are beneficial to share the experience, technology, know-how and other investment specific resources to have advantage competing businesses in the same market. On the other hand, acquisition is the purchase of a host country business by a home country business. It is a quick way of internationalization and to have access to a bundle of assets and opportunities at once.
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Foreign Direct Investment in the Cement Industry of Turkey: Overall Contribution by Multinational Businesses and Potential Impacts on the Economy
Aytaç Gökmen (Çankaya University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7288-8.ch023
Abstract
The cement sector contributes to the development of the GDP and also the creation of employment opportunities in Turkey. The cement production is made of 100% national inputs and it is exported to 90 countries in the world. Additionally, it attracted an important portion of foreign direct investment (FDI) by means of the privatization operations. However, despite its importance, the cement sector of Turkey is very fragile, especially in times of global crisis and economic downturns. Eventually, the aim of this chapter is to review the cement sector of Turkey, analyze the foreign participation and work out its overall contribution to the entire economic capacity of Turkey depending on credible national and international publications.
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