• DocumentCode
    2688875
  • Title

    Study on the evaluation of target enterprise in M&A of logistics enterprise

  • Author

    Zhou, Yewang ; Zhou, Yefu

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Transp., Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    8-10 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    603
  • Lastpage
    605
  • Abstract
    At present, social cooperation of our country logistics enterprise is inevitable trend, M&A among enterprises become important route to realize logistics industry scale and promote competitiveness. The evaluation on target enterprise is a previous key link, it is primary problem of M&A decision, play a very important role to success or failure of the whole M&A. Seeing that problem that exist in the existing literature, the paper propose to utilize gray clustering carry on clustering to target enterprise at first, then use multi-objective decision-making with entropy value to select the best candidate enterprise as final goal enterprise.
  • Keywords
    corporate acquisitions; decision making; decision theory; entropy; grey systems; logistics; pattern clustering; M&A decision making; competitiveness promotion; country logistics enterprise; entropy value; gray clustering; logistics industry scale; multiobjective decision-making; social cooperation; target enterprise evaluation; Companies; Decision making; Economic forecasting; Entropy; Environmental economics; Globalization; Logistics; Rain; Supply chains; Transportation; M&A; entropy weight; goal enterprise; gray clustering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Service Systems and Service Management, 2009. ICSSSM '09. 6th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Xiamen
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3661-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3662-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSSSM.2009.5174954
  • Filename
    5174954