Alliances, Mergers and Networks

The past several decades have witnessed enormous growth in alliance activity (Das and Kumar, 2010), and strategic alliances apparently have established themselves as cornerstones for the competitive strategy of many firms, enabling those firms to...

In this paper we argue that market boundaries are socially constructed around a collective cognitive model that summarizes typical organizational forms within an industry. This model is produced when firms observe each other’s actions and define...

The goal of the current study is to cumulate the findings of published research on postacquisition performance and to identify promising directions for further M&A research.

The focus on network research has shifted from the structures, functions, and dynamics of networks to the management of networks. The broadness of the context in which networks have been studied is matched by the variety of background disciplines...

During the past two decades, alliances have become an increasingly popular strategy organizations use to complement and supplement their internal activities. However, the failure rates are high and therefore the research has two different...

Transaction cost economics (TCE) is one of the leading perspectives in management and organizational studies, yet debate continues regarding its empirical support. In this paper, we take stock of the large body of extant research and provide...

The objective = to offer some reflections on the state of research in the alliance field and to comment on the Hennart and Zeng, and Salk papers, which are part of this issue...

Many mergers fail. Though there are numerous explanations for failure, the seven determinants of merger success have been identified as strategic vision, strategic fit, deal structure, due diligence, pre-merger planning, post-merger integration,...

A taxonomy of managerial goals in mergers and acquisitions is developed through a cluster analysis of data from interviews with merger and acquisition practitioners. Different types of mergers and acquisitions are characterized by different...

Summary of article itself: organizational boundaries are a central phenomenon, research is dominated by transaction cost economics and related exchange-efficiency perspectives. Our purpose is to provide a deeper understanding of organizational...