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Taking Stock of What We Know About Mergers and Acquisitions: A Review and Research AgendaAnderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Riverside, john.haleblian{at}ucr.edu
Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University, East Lansing
Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University, East Lansing Scholars from multiple fields have shown increasing interest in the causes and consequences of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Although this proliferation of research has the potential to significantly improve our understanding of M&A activity, absent is the necessary step of consolidating and integrating extant knowledge. Accordingly, this article develops a framework to organize and review recent empirical findings, principally from management, economics, and finance in which interest in acquisition behavior is high but also from other areas that have tangentially explored acquisition activity such as accounting and sociology. This article identifies patterns and theoretical gaps and provides recommendations for future research aimed at developing a more integrated M&A research agenda for management scientists.
Key Words: acquisitions • mergers • mergers and acquisitions
This version was published on June
1, 2009 Journal of Management, Vol. 35, No. 3,
469-502 (2009) |
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