The purpose with this paper is to highlight the comparative advantages of using case study research to contribute to the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) field and provide some recommendations how this can be done well. Based on three reviews of the case study methodological literature,...

The literature on organizational learning has traditionally either conceptualized learning as an intraorganizational or as an interorganizational process without taking into consideration how these different levels of learning are interlaced. We propose an integrated conceptual framework of...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are increasingly prevalent, powerful and risky corporate events. The resistance or support of people in the integration of two previously separate organizations plays a key role for their success or failure. In this paper we present a Career Concept approach to...

Our understanding of how organizations become reoriented towards more environmentally apt strategies suffers from previously fragmented conceptual approaches and insufficient attention in research to the process and content of such ecological reorientations. This paper develops an orientational...

Based on survey questionnaire data of 494 German expatriate managers on assignment to 59 countries, this study explored the nature of the expatriate career concept, the perceived impact of an international assignment on career advancement and personal development, and the effectiveness of...

Summary Current research on multicultural teams tends to exhibit a bias towards studying the negative effects of team diversity more than the positive. This negative bias has limited our understanding of the conditions that promote the benefits of diversity and of the mechanisms that foster...