Creating value through merger and acquisition integration / David M. Schweiger, Philippe Very -- The operating performance of companies involved in acquisitions in the U.K. retailing sector, 1977-1992 / Steve Burt, Robin Limmack -- Shareholder wealth effects of diversification strategies : a review of recent literature / Robin Limmack -- International mergers and acquisitions : past, present and future / Pervez N. Ghauri, Peter J. Buckley -- Integrating acquisitions / Robert Pitkethly, David Faulkner, John Child -- Organisational change processes in international acquisitions / David Faulkner, John Child, Robert Pitkethly -- Managerial preferences in international merger and acquisition partners revisited : how are they influenced? / Susan Cartwright, Fionnuala Price -- Value creation in large European mergers and acquisitions / Marc Goergen, Luc Renneboog -- Introduction / Cary Cooper, Alan Gregory.

Bringing together academics from various disciplines, these papers integrate the disparate but growing body of literature on mergers and acquisitions. The series is published to explain and discuss the unsatisfactory outcomes that result from many poorly conceived mergers.

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