This research investigated the effects that embedded information systems and embedded knowledge had on a systems integration project following a corporate merger. Our study focused particularly on one aspect of knowledge – the organization of knowledge. The contribution of this research is the presentation of four dimensions for which knowledge is organized: knowledge routinization, knowledge a...

A social identity approach to the investigation of group-based reactions to a merger is outlined, in which a merger is analyzed in terms of the continuation or change of the pre-merger group identity. In two experiments, the relationship between pre-merger identification, post-merger identification, and ingroup bias was investigated using a minimal group paradigm. Results from both studies show...

7 The year 2001 was one of change for the cooperative in many important ways. Industry consolidation and the shifts in land ownership patterns continued to accelerate. International Paper Company's acquisition of Champion International , which was actually completed in 2000, resulted in a loss of a cooperative member in 2001. Fortunately, this occurred without a corresponding loss of breeding m...

Mergers that substantially lessen competition are challenged by antitrust authorities. Instead of blocking anticompetitive transitions straight away, authorities might choose to negotiate with the merging parties and allow the transactions to proceed with modifications that restore or preserve the competition in the involved markets. We study a sample of 167 mergers that were under the European...

Manuela Campanelli, 2 Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower, Badri Krishnan, and David Merritt 2 Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville, Texas 78520 Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, School of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, 78 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, New Y...

Purpose: The objective of this study is to detect and measure the occurrence extraordinary returns shareholders private higher education companies, listed on Brazilian stock market, B3, when mergers acquisitions occur.
 Methods: This uses Event Study technique process data from 46 merger acquisition events, that occurred in period 2007- 2015, involving three main applies Z-statistic test a...

Les cahiers de la série scientifique (CS) visent à rendre accessibles des résultats de recherche effectuée au CIRANO afin de susciter échanges et commentaires. Ces cahiers sont écrits dans le style des publications scientifiques. Les idées et les opinions émises sont sous l'unique responsabilité des auteurs et ne représentent pas nécessairement les positions du CIRANO ou de ses partenaires. Thi...

This research is motivated by the merger between Bank Rakyat Indonesia Sharia (BRIS) company which change into (BSI) company. Several factors influence it, one of stock price. share price also influenced financial ratios including ROE and BOPO. BOPO have reports that are very influential on BSI's because in sharia banking second value has a significant statements quarter when BRIS merged BSI. t...

The article is devoted to the study of legal nature mechanism for association entities. Such associations entities are realized in order attract not only capital and other production resources, including labor, but also satisfy nonproperty interests.Legal capacity process their merger analyzed, based on what – statutory or contractual corporations determined. does lead creation another fiction ...

Financial blogs are maintained by individuals (investors) in order to share information and opinions about financial topics and events, such as merger attempts. A merger attempt represents a situation of uncertainty for investors, because a lot of merger attempts are unsuccessful. Using a computer-assisted approach for content analysis of textual data, this study aims to explore if blog posts r...