Melanie Hassett
international business, mergers and acquisitions, organisational behaviour
Melanie Hassett defended her doctoral thesis on “Key persons’ organizational commitment in cross-border acquisitions” in 2009, which received the Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award 2011 – Highly Commended. Melanie’s research interest lies in cross-border M&As, more specifically post-M&A integration with the focus on cultural and HR integration. She is also interested in research methodology, mixed methods and longitudinal research methods in particular, and she co-authored a book on longitudinal research methods “Handbook of Longitudinal Research Methods in Organisational and Business Studies” together with Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki. She has been working in acquisition related research projects since 2004. Currently she works as a post-doc researcher in research project titled ”Value creation in international growth – focus on acquisitions and joint ventures”, which is funded by the Academy of Finland and "Emotions in M&A - managing emotions in global, virtual world" funded by TEKES (the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation). Acquisitions are also part of her core courses; she teaches a master’s level course called KVS4 International mergers and acquisition and she gives lectures about acquisitions also to post-graduates and mba students.
Currently Melanie works as a post-doc researcher in research project titled ”Value creation in international growth – focus on acquisitions and joint ventures”, which is funded by the Academy of Finland and "Emotions in M&A - managing emotions in global, virtual world" funded by TEKES (the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation).
Melanie has vast experience in teaching both under-graduates and post-graduates. Currently, due to her commitments as a project coordinator for two externally funded research projects she teaches one master’s level course called KVS4 International mergers and acquisition and she gives lectures about acquisitions also to post-graduates.
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- Multiculturalism in M&As – An organizational identity perspective on cultural differences (2011) Proceedings of the 37th EIBA Annual Conference: Taking IB in Europe to the Next Level: Emerging Issues, Strategies and Economies Melanie Hassett, Niina Nummela, Deepak Shrivastava, Rudolf Sinkovics
- The process matters from beginning to end: A process and actor perspective to M&As (2011) EURAM 11th Annual Conference, 1.-4.6.2011 Tallinn, Estonia Melanie Raukko
- Dynamics of cultural integration in a cross-border acquisition. – A closer look at an Indian-European deal (2010) EIBA 2010 Proceedings Nummela Niina, Raukko (nykyinen Hassett) Melanie
- The organisational commitment and turnover intentions of acquired key persons in cross-border acquisitions (2010) Melanie Raukko
- Key persons’ organisational commitment in cross-border acquisitions (2009) Melanie Raukko
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