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Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions

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Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions Volume 18

Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions

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Cary L. Cooper

Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

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Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

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Contents

About the Authors

Fadi Alkaraan is a Senior Lecturer in Accountancy and Finance at Lincoln International Business School, the University of Lincoln (UK). He completed his postgraduate degrees (MA and Ph.D. Accounting & Finance) at the University of Manchester. He received his degrees of BA Econ (1990), BA Law (1993), PG Diploma Econ (1991) and M.Phil. Econ-Finance (1996) from the University of Aleppo. Fadi held various teaching and research positions at business schools including the University of Manchester (UK), Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates University, Gulf Private University and Aleppo University and Grafton College of Management Sciences and Cork University Business School (Ireland). Fadi was promoted to Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance at Aleppo University in 2012. Fadi’s research interests mainly focus on current issues in strategic investment decision making and investment appraisal techniques, the influence of corporate governance practices on organisational performance and the influence of strategic control mechanisms on strategic investment decision making.

Urs Daellenbach is currently Head of the School of Management at Victoria University of Wellington and co-leader of an innovation research team for the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge in New Zealand. His research interests have focussed on value creation and capture, drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, with a specific emphasis on contexts associated with strategic decision making for R&D and innovation. His research has been published in Industrial & Corporate Change, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, R&D Management, Strategic Management Journal and Strategic Organization.

John Dumay, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Originally a Consultant, he joined academia after completing his Ph.D. in 2008. His thesis won the European Fund for Management Development and Emerald’s Outstanding Doctoral Research Award for Knowledge Management. John researches intellectual capital, knowledge management, corporate reporting and disclosures, research methodologies and academic writing. John has written over 80 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and edited books, and is highly cited in Scopus and Google Scholar. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Capital and Meditari Accountancy Research, Editor of the eJournal of Knowledge Management, on the Editorial Board of Advice of the highly regarded Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Journal of Knowledge Management and several other leading accounting and management journals.

Kimberly M. Ellis, Ph.D. Florida State University, is an Associate Professor at Florida Atlantic University. Building mainly on theories pertaining to learning and justice as well as the process perspective of acquisitions, her primary research examines multiple facets of the acquisition decision-making process. A second area of research interest focusses on two critical elements of a firm’s corporate social responsibility – its environmental management strategies and diversity initiatives. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal and other outlets. In addition, Kimberly is a Founding Member of the Africa Journal of Management editorial review board, a Member of the editorial board of Strategic Organization, a Member of the editorial board at Journal of International Business Studies and an ad hoc Reviewer for the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies and British Journal of Management among other leading journals.

Janice M. Gordon is a Ph.D. Student in Management Strategy at Florida State University. Her research interests focus on intellectual property, knowledge transfer and innovation, both within the United States and in a global context.

Sofie Skovbo Gottlieb is a Research Assistant at Copenhagen Business School. She has a master’s degree in Diversity and Change Management from Copenhagen Business School and has gained experience as a Diversity Specialist in Nordea before returning to academia. Her focus is on gender, diversity and inclusion as strategic agendas in for-profit organisations.

James Guthrie is Distinguished Professor of Accounting, Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, Macquarie University. He is a Joint Founding Editor of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, which is consistently ranked in the top five in the world. James has published 180 articles, 20 books and 45 chapters in books. He has over 21,000 citations to his work as measured by Google Scholar. In the international arena on his research topic areas, Professor Guthrie has been actively involved with the OECD, European and wider academic communities, as well as advisory work for the OECD dating back to 1998.

Kari Jalonen is a SCANCOR Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University, USA, and he is affiliated with Hanken School of Economics, Finland. His research interests lies in the negotiation of institutional complexity in organisational practice, and strategy work in public-sector organisations. His current work studies the crafting of a collective strategy in a city organisation as a dialogue between different institutional perspectives, showing how these are continuously brought together to coordinate organisational action and craft shared understanding. Kari also studies and develops more inclusive, collaborative practices of academic work as a member of the Nordic Open Writing Hub. His work has been published in leading journals such as Strategic Management Journal and Qualitative Inquiry.

David R. King earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He is currently the Department Chair and Higdon Professor of Management at Florida State University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate business strategy. Dave’s research appears in leading management journals, and it focusses on complementary resources, merger and acquisition integration and performance, technology innovation and defense procurement.

Bruce T. Lamont, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, is the Jim Moran Eminent Scholar of Business Administration in the College of Business at Florida State University. His research has been published in such outlets as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies and Strategic Management Journal. He serves or has served on the editorial review boards for the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies and Strategic Management Journal and as Senior Associate Editor of the Africa Journal of Management. His current research addresses the effective management of acquisition integration processes, knowledge investments, entrepreneurship and novel applications and extensions of theory to the African context.

Mitchell Lee Marks is Emeritus Professor of Leadership at San Francisco State University and President of the consultancy JoiningForces.org, USA. His research has been recognised in ways including the Outstanding Contribution to Organizational Behavior award from the Academy of Management. He is the author of seven books – including Joining Forces: Making One Plus One Equal Three in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances and has published scores of articles in practitioner and scholarly journals including Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Psychology and Human Resource Management. He consults with a wide variety of firms globally, advising on organisational change, team building, strategic direction, corporate culture and the planning and implementation of mergers and acquisitions. He has advised in over 100 cases of mergers and acquisitions. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and has been named one of the “World’s Top 30 Experts on Corporate Culture” for three years running.

Olimpia Meglio earned her Ph.D. in Management from University of Naples “Federico II”. She is currently an Associate Professor of Management at the University of Sannio. Her research interests lie at the intersection of strategic and organisational factors in mergers and acquisitions. Her works have appeared in leading journals such as Journal of Business Research or Human Resources Management. She has edited the Routledge Companion about Mergers and Acquisitions with Annette Risberg and David King.

Mike W. Peng, Ph.D. University of Washington, is the Jindal Chair of Global Strategy at the Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. He is also a National Science Foundation Career Award winner and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. Every year during the last four years (2014–2017), he has been listed among the top 70–95 most cited scholars in business and economics by The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds (compiled by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics). His research interests are global strategy, international business and emerging economies, with a theoretical focus on the institution-based view.