1. Introduction & Overview.
2. ‘The Economist Cases: How Mergers Go Wrong.
PART I: GROWTH BY M&A.
3. Henry Manne: Merger & Market for Corporate Control.
4. Michael C Jensen: Take-overs: folklore & science.
5. H Donald Hopkins: Cross Border Mergers & Acquisitions, global & regional perspectives.
6. Bruce Kogut: Joint Ventures and the Option to Acquire.
7. Harry G Barkema & Freek Vermeulen: International Expansion through Start-up or Acquisition, a learning perspective.
PART II: MOTIVES AND TARGETS.
8. HG Baumann: Merger Theory, Property Rights and the Pattern of US Direct Investment in Canada.
9. Russell W Coff: How Buyers Cope with Uncertainty when Acquiring Firms in Knowledge-Intensive Industries, caveat emptor.
10. Tomi Laamanen: Option Nature of Company Acquisitions Motivated by Competence Acquisiton.
11. Andrew C Inkpen, Anant K Sundaram & Kristin Rockwood: Cross-Border Acquisition of US Technology Assets.
PART III: STRATEGIC PLANNING, TACTICS AND VALUATION.
12. Michael Keenan: Valuation Problems in Service Sector Mergers.
13. Harbir Singh & Cynthia A Montgomery: Corporate Acquisition Strategies and Economic Performance.
14. Roland Calori, Michael Lubatkin & Phillipe Very: Control Mechanisms in Cross-Border Acquisitions.
15. Pedro Gonzales, Geraldo M Vasconcellos & Richard J Kish: Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions, the undervaluation hypotheses.
PART IV: MERGER PROCESSES.
16. Anthony F Buono, James L Bowditch & John Lewis III: When Cultures Collide, the anatomy of a merger.
17. Piero Morosini, Scott Shane & Harbir Singh: National Cultural Differences and Cross-Border Acquistion Performance.
PART V: MANAGERIAL AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF MERGERS.
18. John J Siegfried and M Jane Bar Sweeney: The social & Political Consequences of Conglomerate Mergers.
19. Deepak K Datta Organisational Fit and Acquistion Performance, effects of post- acquisition integration.
20. Roland Villinger: Post Acquistion Managerial Learning in Central East Europe.
PART VI: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION.
21. Harvard Business Review: Round Table on Making Mergers Succeed.
22. Conclusions.
