By appointing a chief digital officer (CDO), firms decide for a central role responsible for their
digital transformation. While CDOs have recently appeared in the C‐suites of firms across …

Merger and acquisition (M&A) have become a foremost strategic alliance for business,
product and geographic tactics in global market. Using meta-literature review, we conduct a …

Acknowledging the importance of technology-driven acquisitions for China, and of host-
country intellectual property rights protection (IPRP) in the Tech Cold War era, this study …

Based on Chinese firm-level panel data in energy and electric power industries from year
2007 to 2018, we adopt panel data OLS regression model to empirically study the impact of …

In the last three decades, cross-border mergers and acquisitions have been the most
preferred vehicle for unprecedented internationalization and integration of the global …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide a broad understanding of the pre-completion
stage and subsequent abandonment of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) …

We examine the impact of policy uncertainty on cross-border mergers and acquisitions
(M&As). Using a sample of 23 countries worldwide over the period from 2003 to 2016, we …

In this paper, we study the role of Confucius Institute in supporting internationalization of
Chinese enterprises. Employing a panel dataset containing 66 Belt-Road countries and 75 …

This paper examines whether the heterogeneity of US acquirers' corporate investment
efficiency plays a key role in the observed performance variation of cross-border mergers …

This paper examines the impact of protectionism and intellectual property right (IPR)
protection in host markets on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CB M&As). CB M&As …