Mergers and Acquisitions as the Pillar of Foreign Direct Investment

1 To merge or to acquire, by Aristidis Bitzenis and Vasileios A. Vlachos. Part I: FDI 2 Globalization and FDI, by Aristidis Bitzenis. 3 Motives, barriers, and trends of FDI, by Aristidis Bitzenis. 4 Towards a unifying model of FDI determinants, by Aristidis Bitzenis, Pyrros Papadimitriou and Vasileios A. Vlachos. 5 The impact of FDI, by Aristidis Bitzenis and Vasileios A. Vlachos. 6 Patterns of MNE/state interactions in international business, by Yorgos Rizopoulos and Dimitrios Sergakis. Part II: M&As 7 Regional concentration of M&As, by Aristidis Bitzenis and Pyrros Papadinitriou. 8 M&As in central and eastern Europe and the impact of the global economic crisis, by Christina Sakali. 9 M&As: Motives, empirical results and contemporary issues, by Ioannis A. Tampakoudis, Demetres N. Subeniotis and Iordanis M. Eleftheriadis. 10 A survey of recent literature on the determinants of cross-border M&A activity, by Vasileios A. Vlachos. 11 The legal regime on M&As in EU and US, by Tania Pantazi. Part III: Case Studies 12 FDI in FYR Macedonia: An overview of motives and barriers, by Aristidis Bitzenis, Valentina Nuskova and Vasileios A. Vlachos. 13 FDI into perspective: Evidence from M&As in the Turkish banking sector, by Panagiotis Kontakos. 14 FDI determinants and deterrents in Bulgaria and Albania: An overview, by Aristidis Bitzenis.