165,000 cross-border acquisitions from 31 source and 58 host countries are classified by strategy. The data enables exploration of horizontal, vertical, and conglomerate acquisition patterns over time. It highlights the financial sector's role in conglomerate activity and the wave-like growth driven by changes in this category.
Use Cases
- Analyze the temporal stability of horizontal and vertical acquisition classifications across source and host countries.
- Investigate the composition and drivers of conglomerate activity, with focus on the financial sector segment.
- Model the wave-like growth pattern of total acquisitions as a function of changes in conglomerate activity.
Strengths
- Contains 165,000 acquisition records, providing a substantial sample for analysis.
- Covers transactions across 89 distinct countries (31 source, 58 host), offering broad geographic scope.
- Features a novel classification of each acquisition into horizontal, vertical, or conglomerate strategies based on vertical relatedness.
Limitations
- The specific columns and raw transaction details are unknown, limiting granular feature analysis.
- The temporal coverage and exact time range of the 165,000 acquisitions are not specified.
- Potential bias towards documented or large-scale transactions, as the data collection methodology is not detailed.
Provenance
- Source
- ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Data compiled for academic paper exploring multinational enterprise subsidiary integration strategies.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- 31 source countries and 58 host countries.