The employment effect of mergers and acquisitions in commerce. Report TMMAC/2003

Attempts to identify the precise relationships between employment and mergers and acquisitions is always complicated by other concurrent processes under way in both commerce and the wider economy, especially the effects of globalized competition. This report provides a basis for more detailed research and reflection on a phenomenon that, no matter its current decline, is increasingly attracting the attention of policy-makers, employers, workers, researchers and other interested parties in the world of work.