Objectives of the Study This study focuses on the phenomenon of Mergers & Acquisitions and ponders whether alignment between the business strategy and the IT strategy has an impact on IT integration efforts within a case company. The study is facilitated by asking the research question; Does the level of strategic alignment between IT and business strategy have an impact on how IT is integrated...

Robert has most recently served as senior vice president of corporate development and as vice president of merger integration, overseeing the integration efforts following Sallie Mae’s acquisition of USA Group’s guarantee servicing, student loan servicing and secondary market operations in July 2001. Prior to this assignment, Robert has served as a Vice president of application development in S...

In this article, I will explain a couple of things about the use of LATEX at Wolters Kluwer Academic Publishers (WKAP), a scientific publisher in Dordrecht. WKAP came into existence in the ’80s after the merger between D. Reidel Publishing Company, Martinus Nijhoff and Dr W. Junk. Each year, WKAP publishes approximately 200 scientific journals and about 500 books (in reality, 200 scientific jou...

Consequential damage waivers are a frequent part of merger and acquisition agreements involving private company targets. Although these waivers are heavily negotiated, the authors believe that few deal professionals understand the concept of consequential damages and, as a result, the inclusion of such waivers may have an unexpected impact on both buyers and sellers. The authors believe that th...

Our study examines the knowledge sharing at a global polymer manufacturing company during its post merger integration period. Drawing on the two opposing views on knowledge in organizations—knowledge-as-object and knowledge-as-relationship—and growing recognition in the literature that deliberate and formalized knowledge sharing approaches may not exactly mirror what is going on in the organiza...

During the last decade, Nigeria has witnessed significant growth in corporate mergers and acquisitions. Reasons behind mergers and acquisitions are to syntheses and enhance the corporate tenacity (synergy). In the existing study, an attempt has been on the study of the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the shareholders wealth. The study specifically on companies which have undergone merger ...

Listed companies commonly appoint their incumbent annual auditors to audit a target company during merger and acquisition (M&A). However, some choose an alternative auditor perform t...

Recent empirical research has proposed a variety of factors that explains the decision of companies to merge or acquire. We use a binary logistic regression framework to investigate the effects that prior firm performance, prior resource availability, and corporate governance characteristics have on the propensity of a company to become active. The analysis focus on American companies in the ti...

It is common to see that many telecommunications businesses IT-ICT systems are hosted within large data-driven telecommunications business telecommunications companies such as Verizon, after merging with former competitive companies, such as MCI. To continue providing business services to all existing customers, after completing each business merger, most existing telecommunications business IT...

The purpose of the research is to confirm that general country attribute; service quality and the redeployment strategies are variables needed by the company to smooth the process of the merger and acquisition. The main research framework was replicated from the work of Lee and Lee (2011) with alterations to suit the context of the current study. The data were collected from 150 respondents thr...