Kang, Hyoung Goo; Woo, Wonseok; Burton, Richard M.; … - In: Journal of organization design : JOD 7 (2018) 2, pp. 1-46
We investigate the idea that firms' choices of M&A evaluation methods are influenced by two socio-political factors … that arise in the behavioral theory of the firm-uncertainty and controversy. In doing so, we investigate boundary …-makers. The analysis highlights four approaches to M&A evaluation that vary with combinations of uncertainty and controversy …