Question

WEEK 8: Discussion Prompt #2 For the final discussion, research and discuss recent trends in international mergers and joint ventures. What are some of the challenges that exist in international transactions such as these? You should cite at least three articles in your initial post.

Answer 1

A merger is a agreement in which two or more existing companies are combined and form a new single company . There are various types of merger such as diversified merger conglomerete merger etc.

A joint venture is a agreement in which there are two or more parties agreed to pool thier resources for the specific task or to earn profit

Recent trends in international mergers and joint ventures are that a trend in the last few years for the technology transfer in the market to capture or make hold over the market. There is also a trend in international mergers and joint ventures to rely on the work of the Parent Companies and also technology transfer company so that they can shared the services and that help both to manage the base cost The biggest change or trends occur in the international joint veture and merger is that there are various means lot of counter parties from diffrent diffrent companies are entered from diffrent parts of the world . These types of counter parties are mostly the Private equity Firms They are mostly act as a co-investor in the business.

The Challenges that exists in the International Transactions are first the challenge of the foreign currency as every currency has diffrent diffrent currency which has different different rates and also the second challenges is to trade war between various countries And the third challenge is of that every countries has different laws which also creates problem

The articles related to it are :-

Inter firm R&D partnerships: an overview of major trends and patterns since 1960

The supply side of IT outsourcing :- the trend towards merger acquisitions and joint ventures

Co-operation and competition in international container transport:- stragies for ports