7. Summary and recommendations
From the perspective of the kibbutz leaders of the process, the most important goals of the kibbutz in diluting the kibbutz’s holdings in their industrial firms were risk diversification, equity capital for growth and ensuring business continuity. The most important goals of the board of directors were increasing sales and profitability and financing the growth of the business. The most important goals of the partner who invested in the kibbutz industrial firm were to increase revenue and profit. The shared goals of the three parties involved in the M&A transaction were business growth and increasing its profitability. According to our findings, sales and assets have grown in industrial firms with partners more than in industrial firms without partners, whereas the efficiency and profit ratio increased more in the kibbutz industrial firms that were fully owned by the cooperative-like kibbutz.