Mergers and acquisitions M&As are the front line strategic option for organizations attempting to have competitive advantage over its competitors. Organizations word-wide spend billions of dollars in pursuit of this strategy. However, the success rate is less then estimable. This is mainly due to the clashes of corporate cultures. The objectives of this theoretical paper are to find out the rea...

The impact of performance compensation commitments on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) has been widely discussed, but no consistent conclusions. By investigating M&A events among A-share firms from 2011–2015, we found an inverted U-shaped relationship between performance. PSM is firstly used to select a paired sample firms’ signing commitments, which test the incentive effect commitments...

This study isolated the effects of acquisitions on the long term risk-return performance of acquiring firms involved in related and unrelated diversifying acquisitions. Confounding effects of multiple acquisitions were controlled by studying only those firms that were involved in a single major acquisition over a ten year period surrounding the acquisition date. Acquisitions did not improve the...

Battles for corporate control have increasingly attracted the public spotlight. This attention reflects not only the growth in the number of acquisitions in the 1980s but also the size of the targets. Firms previously thought too large to be takeover targets have been acquired despite active management opposition. Any acquisition, and particularly one involving sizable assets, is likely to resu...

Mergers and acquisitions are important business strategy for growth. Many mergers and acquisitions have failed, however, due to a mismatch between strategic, organizational, and increasingly, information systems factors. Given that a large number of enterprise systems have been deployed in the last decade, their integration post merger is crucial to organizations that pursue mergers and acquisi...