... you can see that in particular branches of business the rate is still increasing. Mergers and acquisitions of other companies have been getting easier and more attractive in a certain way than in former times. It's getting easier to overtake a company by the method of stock change as well as by a hostile over-take like the Mannesmann/Vodafon case shows us. The acquiring company offers to payout the shareholders of the acquired company by own stocks. Furthermore, it is getting more and more attractive for managers to overtake other companies instead of being overtaken by companies which have a good financial situation cause of the stock market. Top-managers are getting paid better and better, also outside the U.S. You can say, that the size of the company, is one of the defining factors for the managers' salary. Nowadays it could be also a "temptation" for a manager to increase the size of the company ...

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