Advances in mergers and acquisitions. Vol. 1/ edited by Cary Cooper, Alan Gregory.

The post merger performance puzzle / Anup Agrawal and Jeffrey F. Jaffe -- The influence of cultural compatibility within cross-border acquisitions : a review / Richard Schoenberg -- Integrating mergers and acquisitions : an international research review / David M. Schweiger and Philip K. Goulet -- Takeovers as a disciplinary mechanism? / Robin Limmack -- Corporate governance, corporate control and takeovers / Sudi Sudarsanam -- Acquisition strategy and target resistance : a theory of countervailing effects of pre-merger bidding and post-merger integration / Jeffrey Harrison, Hugh O'Neill and Robert Hoskisson -- Managerial ownership and risk-reducing acquisitions / John Doukas and Martin Holmèn -- Mergers between professional services firms : exploring an undirected process of integration / Laura Empson -- Tales of trial and triumph : a narratological perspective on international acquisition / Martine Cardel Gertsen and Anne-Marie Søderberg