The effects of linguistic distance and lingua franca proficiency on the stake taken by acquirers in cross-border acquisitions

By Ilya R P Cuypers, Gokhan Ertug, Jean-françois Hennart. 2015

159 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/388f290c444993a6a20cd3376bdb4adefb9bd564

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In Accounting

1. S. Pavićević
2. Xena Welch
3. Markus Pudelko
4. Thomas Keil
5. T. Laamanen

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. S. Pavićević
2. Xena Welch
3. Markus Pudelko
4. Thomas Keil
5. T. Laamanen
6. Helene Tenzer

In Strategy and Management

1. S. Pavićević
2. Xena Welch
3. Markus Pudelko
4. Thomas Keil
5. T. Laamanen
6. Helene Tenzer

Citations in the corpus

• The Pre-Deal Phase of Mergers and Acquisitions: A Review and Research Agenda (2020, background): “Cuypers, Ertug, and Hennart (2015) find that acquirers acquire lower shares in foreign targets when the linguistic distance and differences in lingua franca proficiency are high.”
• The influence of language differences on power dynamics in multinational teams (2017, background): “Reiche, Harzing & Pudelko, 2015), knowledge transfer (Schomaker & Zaheer, 2014; Peltokorpi, 2015) or cross-border alliance formation (Joshi & Lahiri, 2014; Cuypers et al., 2015).”