Successful acquirers plan PMI prior to closing, conducting due diligence on the many elements that must be combined, adopted, changed or eliminated as part of the post-merger value-capture activities. Integration due diligence includes strategy, architecture, plumbing-and-wiring, and culture....

Bettina Hauser develops a research model, which encompasses entrepreneurial leadership as a major success factor during post-merger integration. Additionally, contextual variables, namely cultural distance and the organizational variable, relative size, are tested for their moderating effect on...