The Routledge Companion to Mergers and Acquisitions

Part I: Substantive Domain of M&A Research
1. Acquisitions as an Instrument of Organizational Adaptation through Innovation
2. Acquisitions as an Adaptation Strategy
3. A Framework of HR Enablers for Successful M&A Integration: A Study of Three Transactions
4. Acquire or get Acquired: Defensive Acquisitions in Medium-sized Family Firms
5. Opening the Black Box of Acquisition Capabilities

Part II: Contextual Domain of M&A Research
6. Assessing the Effects of the Network of Strategic Alliances on M&A Decisions: Some Empirical Evidence from the US semiconductor industry
7. Chinese and Indian M&As in Europe: the Relationship between Motive and Ownership Choice
8. Engaged Employees in M&A- Illusion or Opportunity?
9. M&A and the Firm’s Corporate Development Portfolio: A call for Research Integration
10. The Acquisition Performance Game – a Stakeholder Approach
11. Leadership, Power and Collaboration in International Mergers and Acquisitions: Conflict and Resolution

Part III: Methodological Domain of M&A Research
12. Reflecting on the Use of Mixed Methods in M&A Studies
13. Event-Study Methodology in the Context of M&As: A Reorientation
14. Institutional Ethnography: An Alternative Way to Study M&As
15. Merging Networks: Contributions and Challenges of Social Network Analysis to Study Mergers and Acquisitions
16. Qualitative and longitudinal studies of mergers and acquisitions: A reflection of methods in use)

Part IV: The Conceptual domain of M&A Research
17. Merger & Acquisitions as Multitude of Processes: A Review of Qualitative Research
18. Antecedents of Anticipatory Justice among Acquired Firm Employees
19. Toward a Competitive Dynamics Perspective on Value Potential in M&A
20. A literature review and a suggestive future research agenda on speed of integration in M&A: Taking stock of what we know
21. Causes and Consequences of Different Types of Identity Threat: Perceived Legitimacy of Decisions in M&As
22. Branding in Mergers and Acquisitions: Current Research and Contingent Research Questions