Management Practices and Mergers and Acquisitions

John (Jianqiu) Bai (), Wang Jin () and Matthew Serfling
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John (Jianqiu) Bai: D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Wang Jin: MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE), MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

Management Science, 2022, vol. 68, issue 3, 2141-2165

Abstract: Using a novel data set of establishment-level management practices from the U.S. Census Bureau, we show that firms with more specific, formal, frequent, or explicit (i.e., “structured”) management practices tend to acquire establishments with less structured management practices and, following the acquisition, adopt more structured practices at the target establishments. These changes are larger when acquirers have a greater incentive and ability to make changes and are also associated with improvements in establishment performance. Overall, our findings suggest that the adoption of more structured management practices constitutes an important source of value creation in mergers and acquisitions.

Keywords: mergers and acquisitions; management practices; synergies; value creation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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