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  title info:
    title: Advances in mergers and acquisitions
    part number: Vol. 6
  name:
    name part: Finkelstein, Sydney.
  name:
    name part: Cooper, Cary L.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Bingley, U.K
    publisher: Emerald
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 187 p.).
  abstract: Mergers and acquisitions continue to be a primary vehicle of growth for companies around the world. Not only in the United States and Europe, but also in Japan, China, India, Brazil and elsewhere senior executives are making huge bets on the future of their firms. With such intense scrutiny in the world of business, it is not surprising that academic research on mergers and acquisitions has been similarly robust. The topics range from strategy, to organizational integration, culture, leadership, human resource planning, and financial analysis. Similarly, the theories brought to bear to help understand mergers and acquisitions range from upper echelons theory to the resource based view of the firm, competitive analysis, organizational trust, networks, knowledge management, and others.What makes the Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions series stand out is its focus on all three characteristics that make up this research field - studies from scholars in different countries, with different research questions, and relying on different theoretical perspectives. Such a broad, and inclusive, approach to mergers and acquisitions is not easily replicated in academic journals, with much narrower mandates and metrics. The collections published each year provide cutting edge ideas by leading scholars on a global scale. Doing so not only broadens the questions being studied, but also helps researchers consider the inter-relationships among different perspectives. In the final analysis, the best way to build understanding around a topic as diffuse as mergers and acquisitions is to be both integrative, and expansive, in choice of research questions and theoretical underpinnings.Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions offers this unique perspective, not easily found elsewhere, that will help scholars think about mergers and acquisitions in new ways, building our knowledge base on this critical topic. In light of the enormous sums being invested in growth-via-acquisition strategies arou…
  table of contents: The group psychology of mergers & acquisitions : lessons from the social identity approach / Johannes Ullrich, Rolf van Dick -- Explaining the effect of M&A on technological performance / Maria Chiara Di Guardo, Giovanni Valentini -- Stock market reactions to knowledge-motivated acquisitions / Ricardo Romero Gerbaud, Anne S. York -- The importance of target firm customers in acquisitions of technology-based firms / Margaret Dalziel -- Pre-merger identification : ties with the past bind us to the future? / Shandana Abedin, Gary Davies -- Acquiring biopharmaceutical research : is market approval a deal breaker? / Karen Ruckman -- A comparative overview of the impact of cultural diversity on inter-organisational encounters / Satu Teerikangas -- Motive archetypes in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) : the implications of a configurational approach to performance / Duncan Angwin -- Introduction / Cary L. Cooper, Sydney Finkelstein.
  note: edited by Cary L. Cooper, Sydney Finkelstein.
  subject:
    topic: Business & Economics
    topic: Mergers & Acquisitions
  subject:
    topic: Management & management techniques
  subject:
    topic: Consolidation and merger of corporations
  subject:
    topic: Consolidation and merger of corporations
    topic: Management
  classification: HD2746.5 .A38 2007
  classification: 658.162
  classification: 334.758
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    title info:
      title: Advances in mergers and acquisitions
  identifier: 9781849504676 (electronic bk.) :
  identifier: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1479-361X/6
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    record creation date: 101115
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