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dc.contributor.authorYang, H.
dc.contributor.authorSun, S.
dc.contributor.authorLin, Z.
dc.contributor.authorPeng, Mike
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-15T22:17:28Z
dc.date.available2017-03-15T22:17:28Z
dc.date.created2017-02-26T19:31:42Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationYang, H. and Sun, S. and Lin, Z. and Peng, M. 2011. Behind M&As in China and the United States: Networks, learning, and institutions. Asia Pacific Journal of Management. 28 (2): pp. 239-255.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50128
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10490-009-9188-6
dc.description.abstract

Few scholars would dispute the argument that mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are different in China and the United States, but we know little about how they differ. This article reports one of the first studies that systematically compares and contrasts how M&As differ in these two countries. While prior research on M&As tends to emphasize economic and financial explanations while treating firms as atomistic actors severed from their institutional and network relations, we develop a new theoretical framework based on relational, behavioral, and institutional perspectives. We not only consider firms as learning actors embedded in network relations, but also compare and contrast their M&A patterns between China and the United States, two distinctive institutional contexts. We find that both a firm's structural hole position and its learning orientation (exploration/exploitation) in alliances have direct and joint impacts on subsequent M&As. Further, such impacts differ across the two countries, due to their institutional disparities.

dc.publisherSpringer New York LLC
dc.titleBehind M&As in China and the United States: Networks, learning, and institutions
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume28
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage239
dcterms.source.endPage255
dcterms.source.issn0217-4561
dcterms.source.titleAsia Pacific Journal of Management
curtin.departmentSchool of Management
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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