International mergers and acquisitions and competitiveness of Croatian enterprises

Internationalization of business is a precondition for the survival of modern enterprises. The forms of spreading enterprises into international markets are constantly evolving and mergers and acquisitions are one of the most topical ways for achieving this. Already mentioned processes have been present in the economic domain of the world for a long time, but their first expansion did not happen until the 1990s. This paper above all studies the ways in which managers of Croatian enterprises have perceived the possibility for the application of mergers and acquisitions in their business.