New integration strategies for post-acquisition management

• Autores: Duncan N. Angwin, Maureen Meadows
• Localización: Long Range Planning, ISSN-e 1873-1872, Vol. 48, Nº. 4, 2015, págs. 235-251
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The post-acquisition integration phase is widely recognized as critical to the M&A process. However post-acquisition typologies suffer from inadequate empirical support or lack of comprehensiveness. This empirical paper responds to calls for methodological pluralism in M&A research, and uses a mixed method to assess the robustness of a leading post-acquisition integration typology. Through multiple cluster analyses, different post-acquisition strategies are identified and qualitative techniques allow them to be further explored. This approach overcomes some limitations of single method research in M&A and results in a more robust, fine-grained and extended post-acquisition typology. It enables a more nuanced perspective on the coexistence of exploration and exploitation gains with implications for practitioners and researchers