Abstract: Mergers and Acquisitions are the major sources of Foreign Direct Investment and one of the effective strategies for organisational expansion and restructuring. In India, Cross border Acquisitions have increased the inward flow of foreign investments significantly and will continue to remain one of the preferred ways for attracting international investments.
The pre-money valuation of startups, as their performance indicator, is critical in entrepreneurial financing, which in turn is significantly shaped by the firm’s internal resources. This paper analyzes an integrated theoretical framework to examine whether the valuation of startups can be explained by strategic and firm-level factors identified by Barney’s (1991) Resource-Based Theory (RBT) as critical to firm performance.
The study investigated the factors forming selection criteria of target firms for mergers & acquisitions deals carried out in the post- 2008 global financial crisis (2009-2015) and the target firms’ post-acquisition performance through these factors.