emerged through data analysis: leadership focus, value creation, integration strategy, the review process, relationship …One of the key processes that business leaders are using to grow their organizations is mergers and acquisitions (M … development, and organizational governance. The results of this study could be used to improve leadership strategies when …

We examine the importance of firm integration to outcomes of mergers and acquisitions using new ex ante product …-based measures of firm integration. Our framework allows us to measure ex ante integration risk for both observed acquisitions and … proposed acquisitions that might not materialize. As validation, our ex ante measures predict post-merger 10-K statements by …

Driven by a philosophy of shareholder value, mergers and acquisitions form a new economic, social and cultural … environment. It is only by a profound understanding of the success factors in mergers and acquisitions that they are able to … countries from Central and Eastern Europe that have experienced mergers or acquisitions in the last 5 years, in which we exhibit …