Mergers and Acquisitions as the Pillar of Foreign Direct Investment

1 To merge or to acquire, by Aristidis Bitzenis and Vasileios A. Vlachos.

Part I: FDI

2 Globalization and FDI, by Aristidis Bitzenis.

3 Motives, barriers, and trends of FDI, by Aristidis Bitzenis.

4 Towards a unifying model of FDI determinants, by Aristidis Bitzenis, Pyrros Papadimitriou and Vasileios A. Vlachos.

5 The impact of FDI, by Aristidis Bitzenis and Vasileios A. Vlachos.

6 Patterns of MNE/state interactions in international business, by Yorgos Rizopoulos and Dimitrios Sergakis.

Part II: M&As

7 Regional concentration of M&As, by Aristidis Bitzenis and Pyrros Papadinitriou.

8 M&As in central and eastern Europe and the impact of the global economic crisis, by Christina Sakali.

9 M&As: Motives, empirical results and contemporary issues, by Ioannis A. Tampakoudis, Demetres N. Subeniotis and Iordanis M. Eleftheriadis.

10 A survey of recent literature on the determinants of cross-border M&A activity, by Vasileios A. Vlachos.

11 The legal regime on M&As in EU and US, by Tania Pantazi.

Part III: Case Studies

12 FDI in FYR Macedonia: An overview of motives and barriers, by Aristidis Bitzenis, Valentina Nuskova and Vasileios A. Vlachos.

13 FDI into perspective: Evidence from M&As in the Turkish banking sector, by Panagiotis Kontakos.

14 FDI determinants and deterrents in Bulgaria and Albania: An overview, by Aristidis Bitzenis.