An Examination of the Nature of Unsuccessful M&A as Illustrated by the Attempted BMW AG and Rover Ltd. Acquisition

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 2,0, Anglia Ruskin University (Ashcroft Business School), language: English, abstract: It is the aim of the present dissertation to identify and evaluate reasons, which led M&A fail in order to develop a strategy to design such processes more secure. The well-known liaison between BMW and Rover will be used as an example for failing M&A and will accompany this dissertation. After a brief introduction, containing definitions, a historical overview and motives and objectives of M&A this work provides an investigation of both Due Diligence and Post-Merger-Integration. Additionally, the author will clarify the way of data collection, the objectives and the design of his research in a Methodology chapter. Subsequent to the Methodology, a chapter discussing the author's findings of the Due Diligence and the Post-Merger-Integration concerning BMW and Rover will follow. The last point of the present dissertation is a chapter containing Conclusions and Recommendations in which the author provides his point of view of the BMW and Rover case and his strategy with regard to M&A in general.