Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS
  5. List of figures
  6. List of tables
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. 1 Mergers and acquisitions in practice: a state-of-art and future directions
  9. Shlomo Y. Tarba, Sir Cary L. Cooper, Riikka M. Sarala, and Mohammad F. Ahammad
  10. 2 Motives for European mergers and acquisitions: analysis of pre-merger press announcements and post-merger interviews
  11. Agyenim Boateng, George Lordofos, and Keith W. Glaister
  12. 3 Motives for cross-border mergers and acquisitions: perspective of UK firms
  13. Mohammad F. Ahammad, Shlomo Y. Tarba, Keith W. Glaister, Ian P. L. Kwan, Riikka M. Sarala, and Luiz Montanheiro
  14. 4 Strategic mergers in the public sector: comparing universities and hospitals
  15. Rómulo Pinheiro, Timo Aarrevaara, Laila Nordstrand Berg, Lars Geschwind, and Dag Olaf Torjesen
  16. 5 Chinese cross-border M&A into industrialized countries: the case of Chinese acquisitions in Germany
  17. Marina Schmitz, Fabian Jintae Froese, and Winno V. Wangenheim
  18. 6 Post-merger integration in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries: a practical approach
  19. Lars Schweizer
  20. 7 Human resource management in the context of mergers and acquisitions
  21. Fang Lee Cooke
  22. 8 The role of human resource management practices in mergers and acquisitions
  23. Sut I Wong, Elizabeth Solberg, Paulina Junni, and Steffen Robert Giessner
  24. 9 How do communication and cultural differences explain post-merger identification? Evidence from two merged dairy firms
  25. David Kroon
  26. 10 Multiple shared identities in cross-border M&As
  27. Anna Lupina-Wegener and Rolf van Dick
  28. 11 The link between cultural due diligence and sociocultural post-merger integration management as a critical success factor in M&As
  29. Natalie Witzmann and Christoph Dörrenbächer
  30. 12 Acquisition in the banking sector in the transition process to the market economy
  31. Ruth Alas, Tiit Elenurm, Tiiu Allikmäe, and Riina Varts
  32. 13 Does acquisition experience matter? From yes or no to why, when, and how
  33. Florian Bauer, Andreas Strobl, and Kurt Matzler
  34. 14 Strategic alliances in the organizational and financial literatures: a review
  35. Ian P. L. Kwan
  36. Index