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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Post-acquisition"”.
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Dispositional Antecedents to Post-Acquisition Employee Commitment
… explores the influence of employee perception of acquisition success and the dispositional antecedents of positive affect and adaptive coping on employee- organization commitment during the 60-day period following a business acquisition. Allen & Meyer's affective, normative and continuance model …
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Success and failure factors in post-acquisition / post-merger integration
… of integrating companies, through mergers or acquisitions, are immense and challenging for the leaders involved in the process who are responsible not only for the integration but also for the attainment of the intended objectives. The implications has the potential for far reaching …
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The psychological contract and employee performance in post-acquisition integration
… there was a change in the psychological contract post-acquisition and if so, did this change have a positive, negative or no effect on employee performance. Previous research and literature has suggested that identity was a critical measure of post-acquisition success (2011, p. 26; Weber&Drori, …
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An examination of the post-acquisition performance of bank acquisitions
This study evaluates post-acquisition performance adjustments in banks that have been involved in bank acquisitions. Evaluation of post-acquisition changes in productive efficiency, leverage, and portfolio mix are the basis for the analysis. The magnitude and types of performance changes that have …
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Post-Acquisition Acculturation Study - A Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Experience
This capstone is a post-acquisition acculturation qualitative research study. Four diverse acquisitions of small to medium sized enterprise were studied post facto to understand the socio-cultural implications of acculturation and stress on employees pre-, during and post-acquisition process. The …
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Acquirer type, agency monitoring and post-acquisition performance: an empirical investigation
… half the acquirers experience positive post-acquisition performance. There exists a serious gap in extant knowledge on what factors lead some acquirers to experience a positive post-acquisition performance while other acquirers experience a decline in their wealth. In this study we …
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Exploring the critical role of different routine connectors in post acquisition integration
… 2006). While contemporary thinking suggests that post acquisition integration is an important source of value creation (Haspeslagh and Jemison 1991), clear links between integration activities and post acquisition outcomes are yet to be made. Focusing on the sub organizational levels, this thesis …
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The Impact of Post-Acquisition Autonomy upon Small to Medium Enterprise Integration Success
<p>Most theories in merger and acquisition (M&A) research use an individual or group level of analysis and address behavioral issues in M&A integration and adaptation. Relatively few studies apply a firm level analysis to investigate strategic issues pertaining to autonomy and decision-making …
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Do large South African acquisitions result in post-acquisition improvements in cash flow returns?
… this study is to evaluate whether South African acquisitions result in success, with success measured as post-acquisition improvements in cash flow returns. The reason for this approach is the view that a firm's intrinsic value is coupled to its long-term cash-generating ability. Post-acquisition …
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Post-Acquisition Management Accounting and Control Systems in an Islamic Bank: An Institutional Logics Perspective.
… many important MACS that the bank relied on post-acquisition such as, the Balanced Scorecards (BSC) and Budget. The acquired bank benefited from the parent bank expertise to change MACS (e.g. BSC). The study found that the BSC was the main MACS that the bank use to achieve the targeted …
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An explorative study on the impact of employees' morale from the post-acquisition exercise in Damansara holdings Berhad (DBhd), Malaysia
Mergers and acquisitions are among the most successful strategic tools for accomplishing specific corporate objectives in the twenty-first century. However, the company's employees suffered a significant impact due to the mergers and acquisitions. So, this study aims to understand and examine the …
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Determinants of Successful Acquisition Management: A Process Perspective in the Lodging Industry
… significant value-added impacts on corporate acquisitions in the lodging industry. Specifically, this study attempted to systematically discover evidence about the determinants of a successful pre-acquisition management process, and the determinants of successful post-acquisition integration, …
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Does Similarity Produce Synergy in Horizontal Hospital Acquisitions? Linking Operations Characteristics to Operations Strategy
The efficiency gains of hospital mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are derived not only from the market, financial, and managerial synergies, but also from operational synergies in economies of scale, clinical standardizations, service line optimizations, and so forth. To understand the roles that …
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Cross -Border Acquisitions: The Impact of Ownership Structure on Performance
… the performance of targets of cross-border acquisitions. I expect firms with different ownership structures to have different capabilities as acquirers in respect to the post-acquisition performance of target firms. Using a sample 111 French firms that were acquired by U.S., U.K., German, …
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Technological overlap and the performance implications for the acquisition of small technology firms
… focuses on the performance implications of acquisitions in high technology industries. I use this setting to understand what factors affect a firm’s ability to successfully acquire external technology to enhance its innovative productivity, decrease the time elapsed until the initial …
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Takeover gains and the recognition of identifiable intangible assets
… intangible assets consequent to business acquisitions in Australia. There is a body of research that evaluates a firm’s decision to allocate acquisition premiums to identifiable intangible assets, rather than goodwill, and this behaviour is commonly labelled opportunistic (e.g. Walker …
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The Benefits of Mandatory Disclosure: Evidence from Regulation S-X Article 11
… pro forma financial statements (pro formas) for acquisitions that exceed one of three bright-line materiality thresholds. Motivated by two theories of mandated disclosure, I test whether pro formas improve analyst forecasts or mitigate incentive alignment problems. Using a fuzzy regression …
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Essays on Executive Compensation and Managerial Entrenchment.
… CEO pay. Using data on CEO pay, CEO turnover and acquisitions in the US, we analyze the risk of CEO turnover in the period 1992-2010 and the effect of market for corporate control on turnover probability. 31% of the CEOs in the sample are replaced in this period, either for performance related …
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The strategic implementation of acquisitions: the impact of human resource factors on acquired firm employees' perception about acquisition success
… firm lower level employees' perception toward acquisition success. The variables selected for inclusion in the framework have been identified from the following relevant literature in the (1) post acquisition integration area, (2) management area, and (3) strategy implementation area. The …
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Tax Incentives and Fair Value Accounting for Intangible Assets
… fair values of acquired intangible assets. Post-acquisition accounting requires that the purchase price be allocated among the net assets of the acquired business based on their fair values with any remainder reported as goodwill. The tax planning strategies of US multinationals often employ …
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