ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter draws attention to the practical uses of this book for multiple readers, notably facilitating through a stakeholder relationship framework a reflective process for readers to better understand and manage M&A by reframing M&A beyond a rational technocratic “eps” lens focused on the financial and strategic aspects towards understanding the EPS implications and processes involved around M&A. This contributes to contemporary understandings of a more stakeholder engaged corporate and financial world, one in which it is increasingly common to consider EPS implications of corporate decisions. In democratic societies where policies and community expectations influence each other, interpreting the EPS implications and processes of M&A directly affects praxis and policy. A range of specific implications and benefits of the framework for practitioners and other stakeholders affecting and affected by M&A is presented.
