Mergers and Acquisitions

Duncan Angwin

Chapter 4.28 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 465-468 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) has been the subject of academic enquiry for over 100 years as its scale, pervasiveness and impact has legitimated its investigation as a phenomenon in its own right. Over the last 50 years a major strand of enquiry has tried to understand why the majority of M&A continue to fail. Empirical research has still not consistently identified antecedents for predicting post-acquisition performance. This lack has continued to drive academic exploration of the phenomenon, widening its boundaries from a reductionist, transaction-focused perspective, at one moment in time, towards a rich patterning of intertwining evolving processes, involving multiple actors within and outside of the focal deal making organisations. In order to explore and reveal more of this complexity, M&A researchers have drawn upon Strategy as Practice to enable deeper understanding of the phenomenon.

Keywords: M&A Integration; SAP; Acquisitions; Integration; Post-merger process; 3Ps framework (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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