Mario Schijven

How Do Firms Learn to Make Acquisitions? A Review of Past Research and an Agenda for the Future

How do firms learn to successfully acquire other firms? The authors first review early work, mostly from the 1980s to the mid-1990s, testing the learning curve perspective on acquisitions and exploring some contingencies. They then discuss three more recent streams of research on negative experience transfer, deliberate learning mechanisms, and learning from others, which provide deeper insight into the contingencies and mechanisms of organizational learning in strategic settings such as acquisitions. The article concludes with an agenda for future research.

The Good, the Bad, and the Fuzzy: A Configurational Approach to Acquisitions

Prior research on investor perceptions of merger and acquisition performance has advanced our understanding of the influence of individual acquirer- and transaction-specific factors on abnormal ret...