Meta-analyses of Post-acquisition Performance: Indications of Unidentified Moderators

By David R. King, D. Dalton, C. Daily, Jeffrey G. Covin. 2004

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Do High Technology Acquirers Become More Innovative (2010, background): “For a review of studies on the accounting profitability of acquisitions that use a 3-year window see King et al. (2004) and Cosh and Hughes (2009).”
Mergers and acquisitions process: the use of corporate culture analysis (2012, background): “However, a recent meta-analysis (King et al., 2004) failed to find a consistent relationship between performance gains and the degree to which the merging firms share similar functions, or other related financial factors such as the choice of payment methods.”
Learning to internationalise: the pace and success of foreign acquisitions (2007, background): “…and Finkelstein, 1999; Capron and Pistre, 2002; Hayward, 2002; Pangarkar and Lie, 2004), accounting figures (Brush, 1996; Morosini et al., 1998; King et al., 2004), survival (Barkema et al., 1996; Pennings et al., 1994; Bergh, 1997; Shaver et al., 1997; Delios and Beamish, 2001; Vermeulen and…”
The double-edged sword of cultural distance in international acquisitions (2009, background): “that other important factors remain to be identified (Datta, Pinches, & Narayanan, 1992; King et al., 2004; Lubatkin, 1987).”
M&A and innovation: The role of integration and cultural differences—A central European targets perspective (2016, background): “…reviews conclude that the commonly analyzed variables fail in explaining post-merger performance and that unidentified variables and interactions caused by the fragmentation of research (Stahl & Voigt, 2008) could help us in developing a better understanding of the phenomenon (King et al., 2004).”
Effects of Firm R&D Investment and Environment on Acquisition Likelihood* (2006, neutral): “Most acquisition research has been framed around understanding the motivations and performance of acquiring firms (e.g. King et al., 2004; Ravenscraft and Scherer, 1987; Sirower, 1997), with the resource profiles of these firms often examined as plausible predictors of acquisitions (Capron and…”
The Effect of Brand Acquisition and Disposal on Stock Returns (2012, background): “King et al. (2004) also report average divesture event sample sizes of 153 across 33 studies. coding (e.g., Rosa, Spanjol, and Porac 2004).”