Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions
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Introduction; Cary L Cooper and Sydney Finkelstein Chapter 1. Reflecting on the Use of Ethnographic Methods in the Study of Mergers; Satu Teerikangas and Noelia-Sarah Reynolds Chapter 2. Does Company Performance Improves After M&A? A Literature Review; Joaquin Sanz BerrioaTegortua, Olga del Orden Olasagasti and Beatriz Palacios Florencio Chapter 3. Examination of Japanese Firms' Announcement of M&A Budgets: From the Perspective of Signaling Theory and Impression Management Theory; Katsuhiko Shimizu and Daisuke Uchida Chapter 4. Cross-border M&As in related & technology-intensive industries: Evidence on the dynamics of spatial distance, industry context, and completion likelihood of international takeovers; Elisa Labbas, Padma Rao Sahib and Trang Thu Doan Chapter 5. Bearers of (good) News: The Impact of Business News Reports on Acquirer Short-Term Performance; Jiachen Yang and Michel W. Lander Chapter 6. Acquisitions as Corporate Entrepreneurship; David R. King, Svante Schriber, Florian Bauer and Sina Amiri Chapter 7. Advancing Research on the Influences of Social Media on Human Resources in Mergers and Acquisitions; Ralph McKinney, Lawrence Shao, Dale Shao and Marjorie McInerney Chapter 8. Retention Strategies in M&A Processes - an Exploratory Case Study on Turnover During Mergers and Acquisitions in the German Software Industry; Theresa Goecke, Björn Michaelis and Lars Schweizer
This volume contains eight essays by business and economics scholars from Europe, Asia, and the US, who consider aspects of mergers and acquisitions: ethnographic methods for studying them; whether company performance improves after a merger or acquisition; the role of Japanese firms' announcement of mergers and acquisitions budgets; cross-border mergers and acquisitions in related and technology-intensive industries; the impact of business news reports on acquirer short-term performance; acquisitions as a form of corporate entrepreneurship; the influences of social media on human resources in mergers and acquisitions; and retention strategies in mergers and acquisitions processes.