Measurement of Synergy Effect between business and Relevance in M&A

Abstract

As business environment changes rapidly, companies must respond to the change. As one ofcountermeasures against big change, divestment by M&A is becoming one of the options. In this paper, weclassify the industries by using FCM in order to reflect the trend in industrial classification that businessstructure changes drastically, we analyze what kind of companies divest business. As a result of analyzingduring 15 years from 2002 to 2016, we found that companies with higher debt ratio would divest thebusiness. Analyzing the effectiveness of industrial classification by fuzzy c means is one of our future works.