that sectoral shocks are at the root of merger waves. Deregulation and globalization are identified as the shocks … DOME database which has been built up at the Kiel Institute of World Economics. On average, performance of merging and non …

, globalization imperatives and competition imperatives have been added to technological imperatives to study changes in organization … technology oriented managers perceive more influence from globalization imperatives and competition imperatives on their jobs and … related to IT, competition, and globalization in their performance evaluation …