An alternative approach to decompose the potential gains from mergers

Abstract

Bogetoft and Wang proposed admirable production economic models to estimate and decompose the potential gains from mergers. They provided a good platform to quantify the merger efficiency and related it to relevant organisational changes ex-ante. In this paper, we develop an alternative approach to decompose the potential overall gains from mergers into to technical effect, size effect, and harmony effect. The proposed approach uses strongly efficient projections, and consistently calculates radial input-based measures for these three effects based on the pre-merger aggregated inputs. In addition, the proposed approach is of vital significance in two special cases where the aggregated projected inputs are not proportional to the pre-merger aggregated inputs and where the production sizes are very different for the original decision-making units. Finally, an application to the City Commercial Banks (CCBs) in China is provided to illustrate the usefulness and efficacy of the proposed approach. The application shows that there exist significant merger efficiency gains for these top 20 CCBs. Further, both the technical effect and harmony effect favour mergers, whereas the size effect would work against most mergers. Thus, in most cases the full-size merger with “organisational sense” is not proper.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2017.1409867
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Operations & Information Management
College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School
Additional Information: © 2018 Informa UK Limited, publishing as Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the Operational Research Society on 1 FEb 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01605682.2017.1409867 Funding: Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71271196 and 71671172).
Uncontrolled Keywords: Data envelopment analysis (DEA),decomposition,merger efficiency,Management Information Systems,Strategy and Management,Management Science and Operations Research,Marketing
Publication ISSN: 1476-9360
Last Modified: 11 Jan 2024 08:11
Date Deposited: 24 Nov 2017 13:25
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2018-11-01
Published Online Date: 2018-02-01
Accepted Date: 2017-11-21
Authors: Li, Feng
Liang, Liang
Li, Yongjun
Emrouznejad, Ali (ORCID Profile 0000-0001-8094-4244)

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