Mergers and Acquisitions Rethinking Key Umbrella Constructs
“Olimpia Meglio and Svante Schriber have made significant contributions to our understanding of M&A providing them both perspective and credibility to assess our field and its opportunities. This book joins their prior contributions to provide a timel
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Mergers and Acquisitions Rethinking Key Umbrella Constructs
Mergers and Acquisitions “Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity has the advantage of offering real world phenomena where developed ideas can be tested and have a meaningful impact. However, the pursuit of novelty often results in greater fragmentation, and this book offers an integration of concepts that provides a focus for future research within and across the umbrella constructs of acquisition processes, fit, integration, and performance. Olimpia Meglio and Svante Schriber have made significant contributions to our understanding of M&A providing them both perspective and credibility to assess our field and its opportunities. This book joins their prior contributions to provide a timely commentary on the primary constructs examined in M&A research and their evolution, as well as future applications.” —Professor David R. King, Florida State University, USA “For theory to remain sufficiently parsimonious (and thus, comprehensible), there is generally considered to be a trade-off between generalizability and precision. How can we, as scholars in the field of acquisitions, best grapple with this unavoidable trade-off? Olimpia Meglio and Svante Schriber offer a carefully curated set of essays in which they—along with a selection of other prominent voices in the field—lay out what are arguably the rudiments of a promising answer to this question. The insightful discussion in this book suggests that umbrella constructs can play a fruitful role in advancing the acquisition literature in a variety of ways, one of which is by helping to straddle the delicate tension between generalizability and precision. As such, the overarching message of this volume is fully in line with one of the author’s long-standing call for a methodological rejuvenation of the study of acquisitions.” —Dr. Mario Schijven, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
“It is my pleasure to recommend the forthcoming publication by Meglio & Schriber. The field of M&As has since the 1960s increased in terms of publications. As an interdisciplinary field, however, it has shifted into numerous directions, with less effort at synthesis. This is particularly visible as regards the core constructs in use in the study of M&As. It is in this respect that the work of Meglio & Schriber provides a helpful and much needed approach to make sense of and to synthesize the expanding, yet largely disparate, body of knowledge around M&As, via a focus on key constructs.” —Prof. Satu Teerikangas, Turku School of Economics, Finland
Olimpia Meglio · Svante Schriber
Mergers and Acquisitions Rethinking Key Umbrella Constructs
Olimpia Meglio Benevento, Italy
Svante Schriber Stockholm, Sweden
ISBN 978-3-030-40458-1 ISBN 978-3-030-40459-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40459-8
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