Ready, AIM, Acquire: Impression Offsetting and Acquisitions

By Scott D. Graffin, Jerayr Haleblian, Jason Kiley. 2015

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Drawing on expectancy violation theory, we explore the effects of anticipatory impression management in the context of acquisitions. We introduce impression offsetting, an anticipatory impression m...

Subfields: Accounting, Finance

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Citations in the corpus

• The Pre-Deal Phase of Mergers and Acquisitions: A Review and Research Agenda (2020, background): “Building upon expectancy violation theory, Graffin, Haleblian, and Kiley (2016) found that acquirers released positive but unrelated information during a short time window surrounding the M&A announcement date to offset potential negative reactions to the deal by external stakeholders.”