Elgar Encyclopedia of Mergers and Acquisitions

Edited by Duncan N. Angwin, David R. King and Florian Bauer

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This Encyclopedia provides a strategic perspective on mergers and acquisitions to review and analyse current knowledge, give fresh insights and inspire dialogue. It examines a wide range of foundational, emerging and new topics, addresses core issues in mergers and acquisitions and offers solutions to fundamental questions.

Keywords: Mergers And Acquisitions; M&A; Takeovers; Divestitures; Strategic Management; Corporate Strategy; Buy-Outs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781800880856
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Absorption integration strategy

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 2 Accounting for deals

David R. King

Ch 3 Accounting performance

David R. King

Ch 4 Acculturation

Riikka M. Sarala and Benjamin Kempton

Ch 5 Acquisition

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 6 Acquisition climate

Emanuel Gomes

Ch 7 Acquisition experience

Svante Schriber

Ch 8 Acquisition impact on targets’ technology assets and ecosystems

Panos Desyllas

Ch 9 Acquisition performance

David R. King

Ch 10 Acquisition premium

Di Bian

Ch 11 Advisory services

Jan Pörschmann

Ch 12 AI integration into the acquisition process

Panos Desyllas and Si Li

Ch 13 Alliances and acquisitions

Randi Lunnan, Linda Rademaker and Minh Binh Thi Truong

Ch 14 Australian M&A

Arpit Raswant

Ch 15 Behavioural perspectives on M&A evaluation

Panos Desyllas

Ch 16 Boundaries

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 17 Boundary spanning

Audrey Rouzies and Thi Nguyen

Ch 18 Brazilian M&A

Henrique M. Barros

Ch 19 Buy and build strategy in private equity

Kevin Amess and Michele Lertora

Ch 20 Carve-out

Alexander Griesmeier

Ch 21 CEO celebrity and premiums

Russell Fralich and Andrew Papadopoulos

Ch 22 Chinese outbound M&A

Ping Deng

Ch 23 City mergers

Janne Tienari

Ch 24 Cognitive biases

David Kroon

Ch 25 Communications pre-deal

Tobias Anslinger and Thomas Katzensteiner

Ch 26 Communications post-deal

Tobias Anslinger and Peter Steiner

Ch 27 Competitive retaliation

Svante Schriber

Ch 28 Connectivity

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 29 Customer management

Carlo Mari

Ch 30 Corporate brand management

Florian Bauer

Ch 31 Corporate governance spillovers in international M&A

Luc Renneboog and Yang Zhao

Ch 32 Corporate social responsibility (CSR) through M&A

Olimpia Meglio

Ch 33 Courtship period

Emanuel Gomes

Ch 34 Critical success factors

Emanuel Gomes

Ch 35 Cross-border M&A

Melanie E. Hassett

Ch 36 Cultural change

Satu Teerikangas

Ch 37 Cultural differences

Satu Teerikangas

Ch 38 Cultural distance

Muriel Durand

Ch 39 Cultural friction

Muriel Durand

Ch 40 Cultural learning

Benjamin Kempton and Riikka M. Sarala

Ch 41 Culture performance

Satu Teerikangas

Ch 42 Darker side of knowledge transfer

Bruce T. Lamont and Janice M. Gordon

Ch 43 Debt

Sina Amiri

Ch 44 Defence strategies

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 45 Director networks and takeover activity

Luc Renneboog

Ch 46 Dis-synergy

Oleksandra Kochura

Ch 47 Divestiture motivations

Andrew Papadopoulos and Russell Fralich

Ch 48 Divestiture of prior acquisitions

Qing Ma

Ch 49 Divestiture techniques

Andrew Papadopoulos and Russell Fralich

Ch 50 Due diligence

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 51 Emerging market M&A

Ping Deng

Ch 52 Emotions in M&A

Melanie E. Hassett

Ch 53 Employee reactions during M&A

Inger Stensaker and Helene L. Colman

Ch 54 Employee retention

Bruce T. Lamont and David R. King

Ch 55 Employee turnover

Bruce T. Lamont and David R. King

Ch 56 Ethnography in M&A research

Noelia Sarah Reynolds

Ch 57 Exploitation

Andreas Strobl

Ch 58 Exploration

Andreas Strobl

Ch 59 Failure – external causes

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 60 Failure – pre-deal causes

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 61 Failure – process causes

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 62 Failure – post-acquisition causes

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 63 Fairness during integration

Norbert Steigenberger

Ch 64 Family business M&A

Olimpia Meglio

Ch 65 Financial advisors

David Santana-Corchuelo

Ch 66 Financial motives

Kris Irwin

Ch 67 Financing of takeovers

Luc Renneboog and Yang Zhao

Ch 68 Geopolitics

Hinrich Voss

Ch 69 Grand challenges

Hinrich Voss

Ch 70 Greatest M&A failures

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 71 Greatest M&A successes

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 72 High-technology acquisitions

Panos Desyllas

Ch 73 Holding integration strategy

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 74 Horizontal M&A

Sina Amiri

Ch 75 Hostile takeovers

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 76 Hubris

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 77 Human resource integration

Anjali Bansal

Ch 78 Indian M&A

Anjali Bansal

Ch 79 Industry life cycle and acquisition integration

Florian Bauer

Ch 80 Industry relatedness

Oleksandra Kochura

Ch 81 Innovation

Andreas Strobl

Ch 82 Integration capacity

Bruce T. Lamont and David R. King

Ch 83 Integration challenges

Norbert Steigenberger

Ch 84 Integration context

Norbert Steigenberger

Ch 85 Integration costs

Norbert Steigenberger

Ch 86 Integration flexibility

Svante Schriber

Ch 87 Integration manager

Satu Teerikangas

Ch 88 Integration performance

Satu Teerikangas

Ch 89 Integration team composition

Norbert Steigenberger

Ch 90 Intellectual property assets

Panos Desyllas

Ch 91 Intellectual property protection

Panos Desyllas

Ch 92 Knowledge acquisition

Panos Desyllas

Ch 93 Knowledge fit

Benjamin Kempton and Riikka M. Sarala

Ch 94 Knowledge management

Benjamin Kempton and Riikka M. Sarala

Ch 95 Knowledge transfer

Benjamin Kempton and Riikka M. Sarala

Ch 96 LBOs in the MENA region

Faten Moussa

Ch 97 Leadership

Andreas Strobl

Ch 98 Leveraged buyout

Kevin Amess and John Gilligan

Ch 99 Longitudinal research in M&A

Melanie E. Hassett

Ch 100 M&A and the COVID pandemic

Florian Bauer

Ch 101 M&A as ecosystem

Svante Schriber and Olimpia Meglio

Ch 102 M&A boutiques

David Santana-Corchuelo

Ch 103 Managerial assessment of performance

David R. King

Ch 104 M&A in 3D printing

Jennifer Johns and Roman Barwinski

Ch 105 Merger waves

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 106 Mergers in higher education

Mehdi Safavi

Ch 107 Metaphor and metonymy

Sally Riad

Ch 108 Middle managers

Gustavo Birollo

Ch 109 Multidextrous integration

Robert Demir

Ch 110 Multidextrous M&A

Robert Demir

Ch 111 Negotiation strategy

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 112 Networks in M&A

Nicola Mirc

Ch 113 Non-value maximizing motives

Kris Irwin

Ch 114 Organizational autonomy

Jean-Luc Arrègle and Brice Dattée

Ch 115 Organisational change

Melanie E. Hassett

Ch 116 Organizational identity

Janne Tienari

Ch 117 Origins of M&A

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 118 Ownership similarity for target selection

Emanuele L. M. Bettinazzi

Ch 119 Payment methods

Sina Amiri

Ch 120 Pharma M&A

Klaus Ort

Ch 121 Post-acquisition integration

Nour Ghaddar and Nicola Mirc

Ch 122 Power in post-merger integration

Janne Tienari and Eero Vaara

Ch 123 Preservation integration strategy

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 124 Private equity

Kevin Amess and John Gilligan

Ch 125 Private equity in the MENA region

Faten Moussa

Ch 126 Private equity viability in the MENA region

Faten Moussa

Ch 127 Project management

Satu Teerikangas and Gustavo Birollo

Ch 128 Psychic distance

Muriel Durand

Ch 129 Purpose-driven M&A

Harin Lee

Ch 130 Real options for international M&A

Mohammad Faisal Ahammad

Ch 131 Relatedness performance

Joseph A. Clougherty

Ch 132 Reorientation integration strategy

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 133 Resilience as a driver for M&A

João Baptista

Ch 134 Resilience in integration

Svante Schriber

Ch 135 Resistance

Thi Nguyen and Audrey Rouzies

Ch 136 Seller preparation for post-merger integration

Robert Demir

Ch 137 Sensemaking in M&A

Noelia Sarah Reynolds

Ch 138 Sentiment analysis

Maureen Meadows

Ch 139 Socio-cultural integration

Melanie E. Hassett

Ch 140 Speed in M&A

Florian Bauer

Ch 141 Stakeholder approach to M&A performance

Olimpia Meglio

Ch 142 Stakeholder orientation for post-acquisition integration

Emanuele L. M. Bettinazzi

Ch 143 Stock market performance

David R. King

Ch 144 Strategic entrepreneurship

Svante Schriber

Ch 145 Strategic motives

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 146 Strategy as practice perspective on M&A

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 147 Sustainability agency

Noelia Sarah Reynolds

Ch 148 Symbiosis integration strategy

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 149 Synergy

Martin Friesl

Ch 150 Synergy realization

Nicola Mirc and Nour Ghaddar

Ch 151 Target screening

Mai Anh Dao and Florian Bauer

Ch 152 Target size

Sina Amiri

Ch 153 Taxation

Jane Frecknall-Hughes

Ch 154 Technology M&A

Svante Schriber

Ch 155 Theories of M&A occurrence

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 156 Theorizing M&A

Helene L. Colman and Satu Teerikangas

Ch 157 Time and timing

Mark Thomas

Ch 158 Tobin's Q and performance

David R. King

Ch 159 Transaction cost economics in cross-border M&A

Mohammad Faisal Ahammad

Ch 160 Transitional service agreement

Alexander Griesmeier

Ch 161 Typologies in M&A

Duncan N. Angwin

Ch 162 Umbrella constructs

Olimpia Meglio

Ch 163 Valuation

Alexander Budzinski

Ch 164 Value and its variety

Sally Riad

Ch 165 Vertical M&A

Sina Amiri

Ch 166 Vision in M&A

Maureen Meadows

Ch 167 Withdrawn M&A

Duncan N. Angwin

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