Bettina Hauser develops a research model, which encompasses entrepreneurial leadership as a major success factor during post-merger integration. Additionally, contextual variables, namely cultural distance and the organizational variable, relative size, are tested for their moderating effect on...

Theoretical Background of Services and Servitization -- Introduction into Company Acquisitions and Post-Merger Integration -- Analysis of Success Factors in Literature and Practice -- Analysis and Discussion of the Stories of Success and Failure -- Recommendation.

For many industries, mergers and acquisitions have become the main pathway for reaching strategic objectives like growth, technological leadership, or efficiency in production and distribution. However, the success rate of most M&A deals is low - and flawed. Unrealistic synergies, wrong target...

Die Post-Merger Integration als komplexer, dynamischer Prozess stellt die Forschung ebenso wie das Management vor große Herausforderungen. Es besteht ein anhaltender Diskurs über die Diskrepanz einer hohen Übereinstimmung über die Bedeutung der PMI für den Erfolg einer M&A Transaktion...