A Recursive Perspective on Discursive Legitimation and Organizational Action in Mergers and Acquisitions

By Eero Vaara, Philippe Monin. Organ. Sci., 2010

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Sensemaking in Organizations: Taking Stock and Moving Forward (2014, background): “(Vaara & Monin, 2010, p. 6) “silencing alternative senses of integration or marginalization of particular voices.””
Templates and Turns in Qualitative Studies of Strategy and Management (2011, background): “In their description of the legitimation process of a merger, Vaara and Monin (2010)’s conception of temporality is anchored within the particular interpretive context of individuals in the two merging organizations.”
The Pre-Deal Phase of Mergers and Acquisitions: A Review and Research Agenda (2020, methodology): “The study conducted by Vaara and Monin (2010) is an insightful example of how such research can be conducted.”
The Challenge of Integration: A Review of the M&A Integration Literature (2017, background): “Management plays an important role as a sensegiver in this process and also affects sensemaking by conducting structural interventions that employees must make sense of (Monin et al. 2013; Vaara and Monin 2010).”
Local Government as Institutional Entrepreneur: Public–Private Collaborative Partnerships in Fostering Regional Entrepreneurship (2018, neutral): “We used a multi-method approach (Vaara & Monin, 2010) consisting of historical case studies and event sequencing, in-depth interviews, and content analysis of government and association reports.”
Where Do Market Categories Come From and How? Distinguishing Category Creation From Category Emergence (2017, positive): “…creation of market categories—postcolonial fiction (Anand & Jones, 2008), independent cinema (Khaire, in press), or merger in the medical industry (Vaara & Monin, 2010)—stress how the central actors (respectively, the Booker Foundation, the Sundance Institute, and two industry leaders in…”