Insights into Post-Acquisition Management
Thu, 24 Nov 2016 08:57:00 GMT
The Business School’s Emerging Markets Research Group (EMERGE) heard Professor Maureen Meadows from Coventry University present her research on "Insights into Post-Acquisition Management: Typologies, Turnarounds and Top Executives".
Maureen Meadows is Professor of Strategic Management at the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS) at Coventry University. Formerly with the Open University Business School and Warwick Business School, Maureen’s research interests include the use of strategy tools such as scenario planning and visioning by senior managers, and the post-merger integration phase following M&A deals. She was a co-investigator on the Leverhulme-funded Project 'Taking Liberties?' concerning public/private blurring in the surveillance society, and she is currently a co-investigator on an EPSRC-funded project ‘Monetize Me? Privacy and the Quantified Self in the Digital Economy’. Formerly Chair of the Special Interest Group in Strategy at the British Academy of Management (BAM), Maureen is now a member of BAM Council. With a background in mathematics, statistics and operational research, Maureen has over 20 years of experience of working with 'big data' and customer analytics, both as a practitioner in the financial services sector and an academic. She has published on the progress and problems experienced by organisations working on strategic projects such as market segmentation, relationship marketing and customer relationship management.
Maureen says “The post-acquisition integration phase is widely recognized as critical to the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) process. However, post-acquisition typologies suffer from inadequate empirical support or lack of comprehensiveness. This presentation argues whether the existing post-acquisition integration typologies are sufficiently robust, or whether we should be taking a more nuanced view of the different possible post-acquisition strategies. For example, should acquired companies in poor financial health be managed as other acquired companies, and should they follow the prescriptions of the turnaround literature? And should the top executives of acquired or merged companies stay or go, post-deal?”
Professor John Anchor, Director of the Emerging Markets Research Group, says “Professor Meadows provided an overview of three strands of her research relating to mergers and acquisitions. This was extremely thought provoking and highlighted a number of different research agendas. Although mergers and acquisitions are some of the most extensively studied phenomena in the management and economics literatures, it is clear that there are still major gaps in our understanding of them.”
