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Disney’s Acquisition of Fox: Motivations for 21st-Century M&A

Authors
Feiyang Xu1, *
1School of Management, Minzu University of China, Beijing, 100081, China
*Corresponding author. Email: 23010326@muc.edu.cn
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Feiyang Xu
Available Online 3 November 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-874-5_142How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Disney; Fox; Streaming media; Acquisition
Abstract

Since the 21st century, the Walt Disney Company has taken a series of acquisition measures to cope with the digital transformation of the global film and television media industry and the impact of streaming media. This study takes Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox as the core case. At the same time, combined with Disney’s mergers and acquisitions of companies such as Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, analyze their merger and acquisition motivations and resource integration strategies. Research has found that the acquisition of Fox has greatly expanded Disney’s content library and enhanced its IP content strength. At the same time, it directly supported the development of Disney’s streaming media Disney + and expanded its international influence. The motivations for Disney’s mergers and acquisitions include building a super IP ecosystem covering all age groups, maintaining and expanding its market position, and responding to the threats from streaming media such as Netflix. After the merger and acquisition, Disney achieved resource focus by divesting non-core assets, realized financial optimization and enhanced core competitiveness. The inspiration for other media enterprises is to accurately position their core resources and activate the value of IP through cross-media development.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Financial Innovation and Marketing Management (FIMM 2025)
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Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
3 November 2025
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978-94-6463-874-5
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2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-874-5_142How to use a DOI?
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© 2025 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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