This chapter intends to investigate the role of strategic mergers and acquisitions (hereinafter Mamp;As), traditionally viewed as a corporate strategy option, in sustaining competitive strategy, offering a description of the whole acquisition process and discussing the main and conflicting...

Acquisitions are an effective tool to implement deliberate corporate strategy or the unique occasion to shift towards an emergent one. They can either allow a firm, to adjust its products-markets portfolio, at a speed not achievable through internal development, either provide the ability to...