For the last four decades, researchers in various disciplines have been trying to explain the enduring paradox of the growing activity and volume of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) versus the high failure rate of M&A. This Handbook will stimulate scholars to focus on new research directions. The contributors explore how underlying concepts and methodologies can make an important contribution towards understanding M&A and their performance. This authoritative volume presents research that incorporates multidisciplinary, multi-level, multi-stage and cross-cultural models and analyses, and also focuses on such issues as process-content, knowledge transfer, due diligence, performance measures, communication, trust, grief, integration approaches, individual values, change management, and consulting. Scholars interested in research on strategy as well as Masters and PhD students on mergers and acquisitions courses will find much of value in this compilation.
Contents: Introduction Yaakov Weber 1. The Role of Trust in Mergers and Acquisitions: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Evidence Gunter K. Stahl 2. Integration of International Mergers and Acquisitions: Test of a New Paradigm Yaakov Weber, Shlomo Tarba, Gunter K. Stahl and Ziva Bachar-Rozen 3. A Research Agenda to Increase Merger and Acquisition Success Mitchell Lee Marks and Philip H. Mirvis 4. Placing Process Factors Along with Contextual Factors in Merger and Acquisition Research Taco H. Reus, Kimberley M. Ellis, Bruce T. Lamont and Annette L. Ranft 5. The Dynamics of Knowledge Transfer in M&As Paulina Junni, Riikka M. Sarala and Eero Vaara 6. Merger and Acquisition Outcomes: Is it Meaningful to Talk About High Failure Rates? Annette Risberg and Olimpia Meglio 7. Researching Mergers and Acquisitions with the Case Study Method: Idiographic Understanding of Longitudinal Integration Processes Lars Bengtsson and Rikard Larsson 8. Individual Values and Organizational Culture During a Merger: Immovable Objects or Shifting Sands? Marie H. Kavanagh and Neal M. Ashkanasy 9. Facilitating Mergers through Management and Organization of Communication: An Analysis of Strategic Communication in a Cross-Border Merger Anne-Marie Soderberg 10. Determinants of Top Management Retention in Cross Border Acquisitions Mohammad Faaisal Ahammad, Keith W. Glaister, Yaakov Weber and Shlomo Yedidia Tarba 11. Grief and the Management of Mergers and Acquisitions Philippe Very, Emmanuel Metais and Pierre-Guy Hourquet Index
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