This study explores answers to the question of why firms adopt certain merger strategies. Organizational slack is proposed as an antecedent condition that has explanatory value in determining whether a firm will engage in merger as an external diversification strategy. In addition, three...

This study presents a framework for foreign direct investment and international market entry based on the resource dependence theory, population ecology theory, and institutionalization theory. The basic research question in this study was "How does prior involvement in an interorganizational...