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Taking Stock of What We Know About Mergers and Acquisitions: A Review and Research Agenda

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	Abstract

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.

First published on February 23, 2009, doi:10.1177/0149206308330554

Journal of Management 2009;35:469.

A more recent version of this article appeared on June 1, 2009


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