Collaboration is present throughout public administration as a means to address social
issues that sit in the interorganizational domain. Yet research carried out over the last three …

The process of identifying and evaluating a target firm, completing a deal after its negotiation
and announcement, and then integrating a target firm after legal combination is a multi-year …

Value in mergers and acquisitions derives from the synergistic combination of an acquirer
and a target. We advance the existing conceptualization of synergy in three ways. First, we …

Although extant research has highlighted the role of discourse in the cultural construction of
organizations, there is a need to elucidate the use of narratives as central discursive …

This volume critically evaluates more than a century of empirical research on the
effectiveness of small, task-performing groups, and offers a fresh look at the costs and …

Based on an analysis of the most active acquirers in seven industry sectors in the United
States in the 1990s, we find that both a high rate of acquisitions and a high variability of the …

This paper challenges the predominant view that legitimation is merely a specific phase in
merger or acquisition processes. We argue that a better understanding of postmerger …

Sharing common inputs across business lines can potentially generate synergy that justifies
related diversification. The pursuit of such synergy through diversification is, however …

Although the management of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and of projects are
connected in practice, they remain disjoined in academia. In this paper, we conceptually …

Abstract Knowledge is a vital source of competitive advantage and renewal for
contemporary organizations. However, to date, few studies have scrutinized how mergers …