The Speed of Human and Task Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions
Human Integration as Basis for Task Integration
In practice, managers of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) draw their attention more and more to speed of integration within their M&A strategies. In a paradoxical manner, M&A research on speed of integration is still in its infancy and remains underdeveloped. Empirical findings reach from positive over negative to non-significant relationships between speed and M&A success. Carolin Proft develops a research model which encompasses task integration speed and human integration speed as independent variables influencing the dependent variable of M&A performance. She clarifies the question of how the success factor speed can be used as a tool to enhance M&A success. Based on the data collected from 101 German speaking companies she proves that task integration speed negatively influences M&A performance while human integration speed promotes M&A success. The present study is unique as it quantitatively demonstrates that the two types of integration occur at different levels of speed. Therefore, the M&A success significantly depends on the chronology of the two types of integration.
| Autor: | Proft, Carolin |
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| ISBN: | 9783658045630 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 107 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH |
| Veröffentlicht: | 16.12.2013 |
| Untertitel: | Human Integration as Basis for Task Integration |
| Schlagworte: | Human Integration Mergers and Acquisitions Post Merger Integration Speed of Integration Task Integration |
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