With the development of economic globalization and integration, economic and industrial structure need restructuring, China's listed companies face the problem of how to achieve effective transformation. The cross-border mergers and acquisitions has become one of the most mainstream form of international direct investment, and plays a vital role in the enterprises'international expansion and transformation. However, compared with western developed countries'cross-border M&A activities, cross-border M&As start late and have a comparatively short development history in china. As cross-border M&As is still a new economic phenomenal in China, many enterprises lack of a comprehensive profound and systematic understanding to it. There are many related parts of Cross-border M&As that need us to study.Based on the analysis of performances of the current China's listed company's cross-border M&As activities, we takes 41 China's listed company as the research samples which occurred cross-border M&As activities from 2001-2007. This paper first reviewed the main theory of cross-border M&As and performance evaluation. Secondly, based on the theory of cross-border M&As motivation and indicator method of accounting, this paper constructed the cross-border M&As performance evaluation matrix model, and used the model to analyzing the Cross-border M&A performance of China's listed companies. Based on the results, the paper concludes some main influence factors of cross-border M&As performance. At last, this paper give some suggestions to promote cross-border M&As activities of China's listed company.The innovation of this paper lies in the process of cross-border M&As, combining the enterprise M&A real motives, constructed the performance evaluation matrix model, not only combining qualitative and quantitative index, but also considering the short-term motivation and long-term strategy of enterprise, amended the deficiency of the traditional evaluation method. |