Session 203
Acquisition Implementation
Track H |
Date: Sunday, September 21, 2014 |
Track X |
Time: 15:45 – 17:00 |
Paper |
Room: Bruselas |
Session Chair:
- Kimberly Ellis, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract: Prior research has emphasized the need to uncover the success factors of merger and acquisition integration. Building on recent work highlighting the effects of geographic proximity in the selection process, we argue that geographic proximity between the acquiring firm and target firm facilitates familiarity and communications, promoting integration performance. Additionally, we argue that this relationship is moderated by the target firm’s status as a private firm, and process level factors such as integration level, integration speed, and informational justice. In our sample of 184 large related deals, we find support the positive role of geographic proximity in the integration process. Additionally, we find support that the target firm’s status, integration level, and integration speed moderate the relationship, but not always in ways hypothesized.
Abstract: Acquisition research thus far has yielded amplitudes of valuable insights on the integration processes of acquired targets. Yet this research exclusively focused on the integration of individual targets, neglecting the fact that many acquirers deal with multiple integration processes in parallel. In order to better understand the performance of serial acquirers, we develop a conceptual model to explain what impedes and what fosters the performance in parallel integration processes. To derive our propositions, we build on the attention-based view and propose different qualitative layers of organizational capacity limits.
Abstract: This study of the integration process during acquisitions focuses on the role of the integration manager as knowledge broker in establishing “key social ties” between the acquirer and the target, and the influence of its social capital on the outcome of this process. By conducting in-depth interviews with integration managers of multinational companies, our preliminary results show that the integration manager as knowledge broker, is able to establish those social ties, thereby facilitating the transfer of important tacit knowledge. As a result, the integration process becomes more efficient and effective, resulting in a more successful acquisition. Our implications show that it is the integration managers’ role as knowledge broker and its social capital that help to explain the hybrid findings concerning acquirer returns in acquisitions.
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- Sun: 09:30 – 10:45
- Session 312: Contributing to Strategy Process Scholarship and to the SMS Community: Honoring Steve Floyd and Bill Wooldridge
- Sun: 11:15 – 12:30
- Session 284: The Strategic Process and Competitive Dynamics of Industry Convergence
- Sun: 15:45 – 17:00
- Session 203: Acquisition Implementation
- Sun: 17:15 – 18:30
- Session 604: Strategy Process IG Business Meeting
- Mon: 08:00 – 09:15
- Session 205: Strategy Making Dynamics
- Mon: 14:45 – 16:00
- Session 204: Strategic Change and Adaptation Processes
- Session 437: Corporate Structure, Resource allocation, and Portfolio planning
- Mon: 16:30 – 17:45
- Session 206: The Role of Middle Managers in Strategy Processes
- Session 211: Knowledge Transfer and Learning
- Tue: 11:00 – 12:15
- Session 209: Design Issues: Tasks, Control and Risk
- Tue: 15:30 – 16:45
- Session 208: Interactions, Recombination and Adaptation Processes
- Tue: 17:15 – 18:30
- Session 207: TMTs, Strategic Planning and Agenda Building
- Sun: 13:45 – 14:30
- Session 295: Keynote: Lifetime Achievement Award
- Sun: 14:30 – 15:15
- Session 471: Keynote: CK Prahalad Award
- Sun: 15:45 – 17:00
- Session 203: Acquisition Implementation
- Session 215: Yikes: What Now (Reloaded)?: Firm Responses to Stakeholder Activism
- Session 398: Corporate Strategy and Corporate Finance: Continuing the Research Conversation
- Mon: 08:00 – 09:15
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- Session 338: Making Strategy, Strategic Change and the Role of Sensemaking and Sensegiving
- Mon: 09:30 – 10:30
- Session 296: How Social Networks Create Competitive Advantage: The Microfoundations Reputation
- Mon: 11:00 – 12:15
- Session 213: What is In It For Us? How Sustainability Matters for Firm Strategy
- Session 352: CEO Decision Making
- Session 405: Multi-Sided Platform Strategies
- Mon: 13:30 – 14:30
- Session 4: Business Models in their Competitive Context
- Session 5: Building Strategic States
- Session 298: Using Networks to Shape Strategy
- Session 299: Dealing with the Euro Area Economic Crisis: Strategic Adjustment in the Period of Turmoil
- Session 300: Methodological and Conceptual Frontiers in the New World of Networks
- Mon: 14:45 – 16:00
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- Session 375: Changing External Environments: How do Multinationals Respond?
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- Session 297: Granularity of Profit
- Tue: 11:00 – 12:15
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- Tue: 14:15 – 15:15
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