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Reimagining M&A integration: a project-based view on M&As
Authors: Geraldi, Joana; Teerikangas, Satu
Editors: David R. King , Olimpia Meglio
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Publication year: 2024
Book title : A Research Agenda for Mergers and Acquisitions: Elgar Research Agendas
Journal name in source: A Research Agenda for Mergers and Acquisitions
First page : 143
Last page: 158
ISBN: 978-1-0353-1906-0
eISBN: 978-1-0353-1907-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035319077.00016
Web address : https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035319077.00016
Abstract
The management of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has long been recognized as crucial for their success. To develop its theorizing, M&A research needs to connect with developments in adjacent research areas. We bridge M&A research with project studies to create a broader research agenda that focuses on the transient nature of organizing by mobilizing projects, programs, and portfolio concepts to organize M&A before and after deals. As a project, M&As should be "completed" on time and within budget. As a program, M&As converge yet never reach full integration between organizations. As a portfolio, an individual M&A transaction can be considered as one among an ongoing series of M&As integrating at different tempos and degrees that together form the firm. We contribute to M&A research by offering alternative perspectives to organizing M&As, and we conclude with a research agenda and an initial conceptualization of a project-based theory of the firm.
The management of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has long been recognized as crucial for their success. To develop its theorizing, M&A research needs to connect with developments in adjacent research areas. We bridge M&A research with project studies to create a broader research agenda that focuses on the transient nature of organizing by mobilizing projects, programs, and portfolio concepts to organize M&A before and after deals. As a project, M&As should be "completed" on time and within budget. As a program, M&As converge yet never reach full integration between organizations. As a portfolio, an individual M&A transaction can be considered as one among an ongoing series of M&As integrating at different tempos and degrees that together form the firm. We contribute to M&A research by offering alternative perspectives to organizing M&As, and we conclude with a research agenda and an initial conceptualization of a project-based theory of the firm.
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