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Over the last decade, the sustainability concept has progressively enticed both practitioners and researchers around the world. Despite the research interest in the role of sustainability in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), a number of critical questions remained unanswered. The aim of this chapter is to review and synthesize the existing research on sustainability and M&As in the fields of management, international business, finance, accounting, and economics and identify avenues for further research. The literature review has been organized according to the process perspective of M&As, that is, the pre-M&A and post-M&A phases. The review of the literature revealed that most of the existing literature used proxies of sustainability such as environment, social, and governance (ESG) rating or corporate social responsibility (CSR) and attempted to examine the relationship between ESG/CSR performance with stock market reaction and returns. While a small but growing number of studies examined the role of sustainability in M&As, there are scopes for further research. This chapter puts forward a research agenda that calls for a more granular examination of the role of sustainability in pre-M&A phases such as the target selection process, that is, due diligence and negotiation process in domestic and cross-border M&As. Moreover, future studies should investigate the role of sustainability during the post-M&A phase, for example, integration of sustainability practices during the post-M&A stage.

This study aims to conduct a thorough literature review to map current studies on international marketing capabilities (IMCs) applying dynamic capabilities view (DCV). The aim of this study is to increase the chances for more conceptual and terminological rigor in future research in this particular research area.

This is a systematic literature review following the established review process of reviews in leading (international) marketing journals. A multilevel analytical approach was adopted, combining inductive coding with deductive coding and following the logic of antecedents-phenomena-consequences.

Synthesis of 20 rigorously selected previous empirical studies on IMCs applying DCV reveals that academic interest in these capabilities is well justified and growing and there are some well researched antecedents to focal capabilities (e.g. inter-organizational capabilities, outside-in market orientation) as well as their prevalent consequences (e.g. export and innovation performance). There is little knowledge of moderators to these links, especially with regard to consequences. This review illustrates that the current research lacks consistency in how key constructs are defined and measured, provides the guide to future conceptualization and measurement of so-called International Dynamic Marketing Capabilities (IDMCs) and proposes some concrete research directions.

The authors extend prior research in the investigated topic by critically evaluating prior works, providing improved conceptualization of IDMCs as well as concrete research agenda for IDMCs structured along recommendations for Theory, Context and Methods (TCM framework).

This study aims to examine the influence of the talent management (TM) process on employee ambidexterity (EA) and the moderating role of learning organizations in Indian IT and ITes organizations.

The study is descriptive and based on empirical data from 390 IT and ITES employees from India. Data were collected using three valid and reliable questionnaires. Data were analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling.

The findings show that the TM process significantly impacted EA. The moderating effects of the four dimensions of learning organization (LO) on the relationship between the TM process and EA were also noteworthy, even though no direct association was found to be significant. Regarding demographic variables, male and female employees do not vary considerably in their perception of TM process and EA in LO.

The study’s novelty lies in creating and discussing a synthesis of exploration and exploitation stemming from EA in learning organization.