The economic geographies of mergers and acquisitions (M&As).

IF 4.6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Epub Date: 2023-08-15 DOI:10.1177/0308518X231190091

Liam Keenan, Dariusz Wójcik

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Abstract

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are on the rise. Interlocking processes of globalization and financialization have increased their attractiveness and incentivized an upward spiral of M&A activity in recent years. This rise is profoundly spatial, as M&As reshape the geographies of production, consumption and finance, while aggravating uneven power-geometries through the concentration of corporate control. Despite this growth and inherent spatiality, economic geography research into M&As has waned. The aim this article is to demonstrate the value of M&As to economic geographers and highlight avenues for future research. This is achieved by explaining how qualitative and quantitative research into the motivations, outcomes and geographies of M&A activity can provide fresh empirical and conceptual insights surrounding wider geographical debates.

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并购的经济地域。

兼并和收购（M&A）呈上升趋势。近年来，全球化和金融化的联动进程增加了它们的吸引力，并激励了并购活动的螺旋式上升。这种增长具有深刻的空间性，因为并购重塑了生产、消费和金融的地理位置，同时通过公司控制的集中加剧了不均衡的权力几何结构。尽管存在这种增长和固有的空间性，但对并购的经济地理学研究却有所减弱。本文的目的是向经济地理学家展示并购的价值，并强调未来研究的途径。这是通过解释对并购活动的动机、结果和地域的定性和定量研究如何围绕更广泛的地域辩论提供新的经验和概念见解来实现的。

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Multiple-

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9.50

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100

期刊介绍： Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space is a pluralist and heterodox journal of economic research, principally concerned with questions of urban and regional restructuring, globalization, inequality, and uneven development. International in outlook and interdisciplinary in spirit, the journal is positioned at the forefront of theoretical and methodological innovation, welcoming substantive and empirical contributions that probe and problematize significant issues of economic, social, and political concern, especially where these advance new approaches. The horizons of Economy and Space are wide, but themes of recurrent concern for the journal include: global production and consumption networks; urban policy and politics; race, gender, and class; economies of technology, information and knowledge; money, banking, and finance; migration and mobility; resource production and distribution; and land, housing, labor, and commodity markets. To these ends, Economy and Space values a diverse array of theories, methods, and approaches, especially where these engage with research traditions, evolving debates, and new directions in urban and regional studies, in human geography, and in allied fields such as socioeconomics and the various traditions of political economy.