Mergers and acquisitions : a critical reader / Annette Risberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Merger motives and merger prescriptions / Friedrich Trautwein -- Not all M&As are alike : and that matters / Joseph L. Bower -- Merger strategies and stockholder value / Michael Lubatkin -- Organizational fit and acquisition performance : effects of post-acquisition integration / Deepak K. Datta -- Corporate acquisitions : a process perspective / David B. Jemison and Sim B. Sitkin -- Acculturation in acquired organizations : a force-field perspective / Priscilla M. Elsass and John F. Veiga -- When cultures collide : the anatomy of a merger / Anthony F. Buono, James L. Bowditch and John W. Lewis III -- Sensegiving and sensemaking in an integration processes : a narrative approach to the study of an international acquisition / Anne-Marie Soderberg -- The merger syndrome / Mitchell Lee Marks and Philip Harold Mirvis -- Shared and multiple realities in acquisitions : an empirically based critique of merger and acquisition literature / Annette Risberg -- Experiencing mergers : a woman's eye view / Grainne Collins and James Wickham -- Common patterns of behavior and communication in corporate mergers and acquisitions / David T. Bastien -- Communication with employees following a merger : a longitudinal field experiment / David M. Schweiger and Angelo S. DeNisi -- Merger as marriage : communication issues in postmerger integration / Kevin J. Dooley and Brenda J. Zimmerman -- Nordea markets : socio-cultural integration challenges / Ingmar Bjorkman and Eero Vaara.