Executive retention and acquisition outcomes: A test of opposing views on the influence of organizational tenure

By D. Bergh. 2001

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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The Influence of Acquisition Experience and Performance on Acquisition Behavior: Evidence From the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry (2006, methodology): “Although our empirical models focused on the organizational level of analysis and used archival data to measure organization-level variables, we did not directly examine the role of decision makers in the studied firms (e.g., Bergh, 2001).”
Upper Echelons Research Revisited: Antecedents, Elements, and Consequences of Top Management Team Composition (2004, background): “For instance,Bergh (2001)builds on the research ofCannella and Hambrick (1993)by finding that the tenure of executives in both the acquired and acquiring firm affects the likelihood of a successful acquisition.”
The double-edged sword of cultural distance in international acquisitions (2009, result): “Empirical studies have also found support for this positive effect on acquisition performance (Bergh, 2001; Cannella & Hambrick, 1993), and the importance of retention for the”
Learning to internationalise: the pace and success of foreign acquisitions (2007, result): “Survival of international acquisitions As in earlier research (Pennings et al., 1994; Barkema et al., 1996; Shaver et al., 1997; Bergh, 2001; Delios and Beamish, 2001; Vermeulen and Barkema, 2001; Hebert et al., 2005), we defined acquisition success in terms of whether an acquisition was divested, t”
Target Reputation and Appropriability: Picking and Deploying Resources in Acquisitions (2004, background): “Bergh (2001)found that retaining top managers with longer tenures decreased the probability of subsequent divestiture, extending the finding ofCanella and Hambrick (1993)that retaining the top executive improved acquisition outcomes.”
Corporate elite characteristics and firm's internationalization: CEO-level and TMT-level roles (2009, background): “Bergh ( 2001 ) found that long-tenured CEOs and risk taking have a positive relationship by positing a resource-based and capability-based perspective.”
Knowledge transfer and cross-border acquisition performance: The impact of cultural distance and employee retention (2016, background): “Finally, our findings are consistent with other empirical studies supporting the view that employee retention has a positive effect on M&A performance (Bergh, 2001; Ahammad & Glaister, 2011b).”