Why good things Don’t happen: the micro-foundations of routines in the M&A process

Duncan N. Angwin, Sotirios Paroutis and Richard Connell

Journal of Business Research, 2015, vol. 68, issue 6, 1367-1381

Abstract: Why do organizations reject favorable opportunities - why don't good things happen? To address this question, we examine companies that fail to proceed with major opportunities for strategic renewal. By focusing upon routines in 28 cases of reverse mergers and acquisitions decisions across three continents, the research uncovers the centrality of a hitherto overlooked process, the authorization routine. The characteristics of this routine, and its nested nature, are shown to be critical to whether favorable opportunities are progressed. These findings contribute to the mergers and acquisition literature by extending prior process models and to the routines literature by showing how links and interactions between different layers of routines, and the nature of the routine enactment itself, are important in affecting strategic outcomes.

Keywords: Authorization routine; Mergers and acquisitions; Micro-foundations; Pre-acquisition process; Routines; Strategic renewal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2014.12.007

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