Mergers and acquisitions generally lead to disappointing results. In this article, we give a complementary explanation of these bad results by focusing on a specific actor:the CEO of the purchasing company. In particular, this research addresses two questions:(1) What mistakes (related to...

Mergers and acquisitions have become essential strengths of the firm strategy. The process perspective aims for best value creation during the integration process. Applied to symbiotic case studies,the proposed research is to study the contribution of management accounting to the process...

The proposed research focuses on a particular acquisition model, called symbiotic acquisition in theorical literature. The goal of this acquisition is to create new ressources based upon specific firm qualities. As a matter of fact, the aim of this research is to identify success conditions of...

(VF)À partir du cas d’une fusion entre une grande entreprise et une start-up dans le secteur des TIC, cet article met en lumière de nouveaux éléments explicatifs de l’échec de la création d'innovation conjointe. Le choix du mode d’intégration visant à préserver les spécificités...

(VF)L’objectif de cet article est d’étudier le processus de construction sociale d’un nouveau marché financier. L’analyse qualitative longitudinale menée sur la période 1996-2005 concerne le développement du marché des dérivés de crédit, marché de gré à gré transnational....

Business environment's turbulence and internationalization question the relevance of classic organizational structures in large firms. The transversal structures are hence forward characterized by horizontal coordination, flexibility, information diffusion and polyfunctionality. The present...

The objective of this article is to show how French constructivist research in management is undertaken. Thus, an analysis of sixteen constructivist doctoral dissertations is proposed. The difficulty of this epistemological posture is underlined and then discussed, thanks to the analysis of the...