The overwhelming empirical evidence suggests that, from the acquirer’s perspective, acquisitions are mostly at best “break-even” situations and at worst failures. Our study seeks to contribute to this pool of knowledge by analysing the performance of horizontal acquisitions. We examined...

Given that the ultimate goal of business is performance enhancement, this study approaches the phenomenon by drawing on resource-advantage (R-A) theory to conceptualize a model with the aim of investigating the links among composite operant resources (CORs), namely customer orientation, basic...