Facilitating Inclusive Identity: HR Practices, Perceived Fairness, and Intergroup Cognitions in Corporate Mergers. (August, 2003) Shung Jae Shin, B.A., Seoul National University; M.B.A., University of Sydney Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Angelo S. DeNisi Based on social identity theory, self-categorization theory, and justice theories, this study proposed a theoretical framework for studying...

Using data from more than 400 legal serials, I estimate the impact of six publisher mergers on law serial prices during the period, 1990-2000. The results suggest that merger-related price increases were substantial during this period, even after accounting for secular price trends. Furthermore, these merger effects occurred across a broadly-defined portfolio of serial titles consisting of lega...

Leadership appointment during mergers has a logical and established precedent when there is a clear target and acquirer. However, in the extraordinary case of Merger Of Equals (MOEs) – where this is relatively equal ownership, board representation, earnings contribution etc this process is much less defined and can often have serious consequences on the merger, both in closing negotiations as w...

This paper analyzes the culture conflicts between two merged IT departments from two banks and how they resolve them. The integration of divergent cultures is crucial to maintain the performance of merged organizations. This paper examines post-merger IT integration of a Taiwan’s financial holding company which merged a government owned bank with its banking business, and argues that the unders...

Mergers and acquisitions pricing is usually a difficult task as it is hard to estimate the price to be paid to purchase the target company. Corporate Finance valuations provide some support, however, Baker, Pan and Wurgler (2009) explain that psychological pricing factors exist and the final price can be quite different from the initial valuations. This paper develops a two-person Merger & Acqu...

Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M&As). It is of central managerial interest to identify factors facilitating the integration of new inventive staff and thereby counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper provides empirical evidence into the role of acquiring firms’ absorptive capacity for the post-merger...

T word ‘merger’ often is associated with a big company buying a smaller one or two large companies coming together. But it is not only large companies that can succeed through acquisitions—even startups can use mergers as an effective way to grow their businesses. As a small team leading the startup Ocimum Biosolutions, based in Hyderabad, India, a decade ago, my colleagues and I could have opt...

Three companies, Red, Blue, and Green, are in competition. No single company can dominate the market without a merger, which has to be obtained by negotiating a division of the resulting profits. Unsurprisingly, each company turns to their computers for guidance in conducting the anticipated series of pairwise negotiations. For example, Blue is guided by computer programs representing simplifie...

Prospective research on psychosocial effects on employees' health associated with organizational mergers has been scarce. The first aim of this study was to explore the subjective health effects (exhaustion and functional incapacity) of an organizational merger among employees who had experienced a change in their own job position differently (improved, unaltered, and declined). Secondly, the e...

The general conclusion of the empirical literature is that in-market consolidation generates adverse price changes, harming consumers. Previous studies, however, look only at the short-run pricing impact of consolidation, ignoring all effects that take longer to materialize. Using a database that includes detailed information on the deposit rates of individual banks in local markets for differe...