Advances in mergers and acquisitions. Vol. 6

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 w...

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Other Authors Finkelstein, Sydney, Cooper, Cary L.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2007.
SeriesAdvances in mergers and acquisitions.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849504676
ISSN1479-361X
DOI10.1016/S1479-361X(2007)6
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 187 p.).

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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.