Affiliation:
1. Department of Management East Carolina University Greenville North Carolina USA
2. Department of Management The University of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee USA
Abstract
AbstractIdentifying the surviving firms following mergers and acquisitions (M&A) presents challenges in organizational research. The paper offers a solution to this issue by examining prior research on M&A and firm survival to identify three empirically‐relevant criteria—strategic intent, corporate name retention, and top management team composition—and integrate them into a process‐driven typology of firm survival following M&A. To demonstrate the utility of this method, we apply this typology to an industry rich with M&A activity: the United States telecommunications industry.
Subject
Management of Technology and Innovation,Marketing,Public Administration,Business and International Management