This paper provides an overview of the academic literature on the market for corporate
control, and focuses specifically on firms' performance around and after a takeover. Despite …

Customer retention, in most cases, is regarded as an indicator of acquisition performance,
but factors influencing it have rarely been studied in the serial acquirer context. As a …

We focus on how international research and development (R&D) teams of portfolio
entrepreneurs and their management controllers can help to innovate and sustain …

High-tech firms operate in a highly dynamic environment typified by both frequent changes
in industry composition (Wolf & Terrell, 2016) and an increasing concentration of market …

Based on the serial mergers and acquisitions (M&A) data of Chinese A-share listed
companies from 2010 to 2019, this paper discusses whether there are geographical peer …

We do not find a significant influence of management entrenchment on the firm's propensity
for frequent acquisition, in contrast to the existing studies that show entrenched managers …

This paper explores the methods of payments for companies engaged in mergers or
acquisitions, focusing on the Spanish market from 2007 to 2019, specifically on …

We examine the impact of frequent acquisitions on the firm's knowledge capital and
organizational capital. We find that frequent acquirers are more likely to have greater …

We study the innovation performance of serial acquirers. We further examine whether
managerial ability influences the relationship between acquisition frequency and innovation …

The M&A literature is broad and fragmented. It studies M&A success and failure from various
disciplinary perspectives and examines M&A deal outcomes at separate stages of the M&A …