This paper investigates the relationship between the employee-friendly practices of the acquiring firm and the acquisition performance. I find a positive relationship between employee friendliness of the acquirer and acquisition performance. Employee friendliness of the acquirer is also...

We examine the corporate governance ratings provided by three premier US rating agencies (The Corporate Library, Institutional Shareholder Services, and Governance Metrics International) and find that summary scores are generally poor predictors of primary and secondary measures of future firm...