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Acquisitions and Corporate Strategy: Alliances, Performance, and Divestment book cover

1st Edition

Acquisitions and Corporate Strategy Alliances, Performance, and Divestment

Edited By David R. King Copyright 2022
272 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Corporate restructuring (acquisitions, alliances and divestment) is a visible form of corporate strategy. For example, firm investments in buying and selling assets exceed the gross domestic product of the majority of nations. Most research in this area examines acquisitions, but informing practice is limited by examining acquisitions in isolation or using a narrow focus. For example, a lingering... Read more

Section I How do acquisitions relate to other corporate strategy options? 

1 Alliances as precursors to an acquisition

Elio Shijaku, David R. King, and Ainhoa Urtasun

2 Review of Divestment Research

Sina Amiri, David R. King, and Sam DeMarie

3 What follows what? Sequences and combinations of acquisitions and divestitures

Oleksandra Kochura, Nicola Mirc, and Denis Lacoste

4 Cross-border acquisition and greenfield investment: Substitutes or complements?

Nan Zhang and Joseph Clougherty

Section II What helps to predict acquisition performance? 

5 Merging dynamic capabilities and acquisition process research: Toward an integrative theoretical framework

Svante Schriber

6 Capability transfer: Improved performance from acquiring polluting targets

Pankaj Patel and David R. King

7 Cross-border acquisition performance insights from predictive modeling

Camilla Jensen, Peter Zámborský, and David R. King

Section III What are persistent acquisition research issues? 

8 A reconceptualization: The mis(measurement) of acquisition performance ten years later

Olimpia Meglio

9 Improving acquisition research methods: Addressing endogeneity

Gonzalo Molina-Sieiro

10 Cultural dynamics in acquisitions

Satu Teerikangas and Melanie Hassert

Biography

David R. King is the Higdon Professor of Management at Florida State University, USA.

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