The impact of acquisitions on firm performance: A review of the evidence

By Christian Tuch, N. O’Sullivan. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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Acquisition Announcements and Stock Market Valuations of Acquiring Firms’ Rivals: A Test of the Growth Probability Hypothesis in China (2011, unknown): “In the case of Chinese firms, acquiring firms earn positive abnormal returns, which contrasts with findings in developed economies where acquiring firms generally experience negative or no returns from an acquisition announcement (King et al., 2004; Tuch and O’Sullivan, 2007).”
Sociocultural Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions: Unresolved Paradoxes and Directions for Future Research (2013, background): “Attention also needs to be directed to how performance is measured as “the choice of appropriate performance measure also varies considerably between studies” (Tuch & O'Sullivan, 2007, p. 143).”
The Challenge of Integration: A Review of the M&A Integration Literature (2017, background): “The link between strategic and organizational fit and M&A performance has been widely examined in other fields of M&A research, particularly the finance perspective, and has been the subject of various reviews (Haleblian et al. 2009; Tuch and O’Sullivan 2007).”
Critical success factors through the Mergers and Acquisitions process:revealing pre- and post- M&A connections for improved performance (2013, methodology): “However, Tuch and O’Sullivan (2007) in their review of empirical research on the impact of acquisitions on firm performance found that hostile acquisitions paid for with cash tend to perform better than those paid with stock.”