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Angwin, Duncan and Meadows, Maureen (2009) The choice of insider or outsider top executives in acquired companies. Long Range Planning, Vol.42 (No.3). pp. 359-389. doi:10.1016/j.lrp.2009.05.005 ISSN 0024-6301.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2009.05.005
Abstract
There is considerable debate amongst academics and practitioners over whether top executives of acquired or merged companies should stay or go, post-deal, as studies exploring the link with organisational performance show mixed results. This may in part be due to such studies failing to recognise that there are a number of distinct post-acquisition strategies which may require the deployment of different types of top executive. This paper addresses this limitation by bringing together the longstanding Insider/Outsider debate with a post-acquisition integration framework, in order to investigate whether there is a link between top management type and post-acquisition integration strategy. Using a dual methodology of survey and cases drawing on UK M&A data, clear associations are found between top executive type and particular post-acquisition styles. Underlying these patterns, the value-creating/value-capturing distinction of the Resource-Based View appears to have a greater influence over top executive deployment than do issues of Organisational Fit. This suggests strategic intentions have ascendancy over organisational constraints in the selection of top executives for managing post-acquisition integration.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Consolidation and merger of corporations, Executives -- Dismissal of, Strategic planning, Organizational change | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Long Range Planning | ||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||
| ISSN: | 0024-6301 | ||||
| Official Date: | June 2009 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.42 | ||||
| Number: | No.3 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 359-389 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.lrp.2009.05.005 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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