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1. Entrepreneurial Integration Skills: Knowing What You Acquire to Integrate It - Florian Bauer, Svante Schriber, David R. King and Borislav Uzelac 2. Acquisitions and Open Innovation - A Literature Review and Extension - Christina O¨ Berg 3. Managerial Retention in Cross-border Acquisitions: Examining Institutional Influence - Richard A. Devine, Katia De Melo Galdino and Bruce T. Lamont 4. Strategic Media Venturing: Private Equity Investments as a Strategic Tool for Media Firms - Tim C. Hasenpusch and Sabine Baumann 5. Effectuation Spectra in Chinese High-Tech Entrepreneurship: Domain-specific Logic Orientations and Cross-border M&A - Yipeng Liu and Andrew Isaak 6. Why Good Things May Not Happen in Knowledge-Intensive Acquisitions: The Neglect of Acquired Firm’s Customers - William Y. Degbey
Business, management, and economics scholars from Europe, the US, and Israel provide six essays on factors involved in the success and failure of mergers and acquisitions in entrepreneurial firms, such as post-acquisition integration; open innovation; managerial retention; corporate venture capital units in media firms; entrepreneurial effectuation, domain-specific expertise, and perceived ambiguity in decision making; and factors that may lead to value leakage or destruction for acquirers of knowledge-intensive firms.