This fascinating book explains how managerial behaviour and communication styles influence the emotions of employees and affect their readiness to contribute to a successful post-merger integration. It combines emotion theories from other disciplines with recent M&A findings, and offers...

Each collection of articles that makes up a volume of Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions paints a picture of contemporary research on this topic. In this volume, we have seven contributions from scholars in North America, Europe, and Asia, and these papers collectively address acquisition...

This is the third book in the series Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, comprised of leading international scholars from a range of disciplines, who explore the economic, financial, strategic or organizational behaviour aspects of M & A's. Marie Kavanagh and Neal Ashkanasy explore how...

Introduction (C. Cooper, A. Gregory). The post merger performance puzzle (A. Agrawal, J.F. Jaffe). The influence of cultural compatibility within cross-border acquisitions: a review (R. Schoenberg). Integrating mergers and acquisitions: an international reseearch review (D.M. Schweiger, P.K....

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 /...

Introduction / Sydney Finkelstein, Cary L. Cooper -- The linkages between cultural differences, psychological states, and performance in international mergers and acquisitions / Yaakov Weber, Israel Drori -- Value creation in joint venture dyads / M.V. Shyam Kumar -- A temporal perspective of...