A Comprehensive Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions: Managing the Critical Success Factors Across Every Stage of the M&A Process - Hardcover

Weber, Yaakov; Tarba, Shlomo; Oberg, Christina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0133014150 ISBN 13: 9780133014150

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2013

Synopsis

Leverage today's most complete and practical framework for driving superior business value from mergers and acquisitions -- both domestic and international. A Comprehensive Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions Management focuses on critical success factors across every stage of the process, including planning, screening, negotiation, due diligence, transition management structures, post-merger integration, leadership and trust, cultural integration, HR practices, control, monitoring, and more. Authored by Yaakov Weber, an international expert in M&A management, strategic alliances, and strategic management, this book's uniquely interdisciplinary approach fully addresses both operational and cultural requirements, supporting participants in every role. Replete with recent examples and cases, it pays special attention to crucial strategic and behavioral linkages between pre- and post-merger stages, explaining why they are so important and how they can be managed to create maximum value. Throughout, Weber provides practical tools, tables, and figures that can help M&A implementers ensure best performance and achieve success where others have failed. As just one example, he provides proven instruments for analyzing cultural differences and the potential for synergy, and translating that potential into reality. For multiple audiences, including board members and top executives who must evaluate the strategic and financial issues associated with M&A; investment bankers, VCs, and other investors who must screen and select acquisitions; managers who must execute business combinations; consultants in strategy, HR, culture, and other areas; and faculty and students in executive education, MBA, and BA-level business programs.

About this title

About the Author:

Yaakov Weber, Ph.D. is a professor of management at the School of Business Administration, College of Management, Rishon Lezion, Israel, and president of the strategic management consulting firm Strategy, Implementation, Results. He has practiced as a strategic management consultant for more than 25 years and has assisted executives of numerous companies in successfully managing various stages of domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, including planning, negotiation, and integration. He lectures at various universities in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and China, in graduate schools of business administration as well as executive programs. He has conducted numerous workshops to top executives in many countries. Dr. Weber’s studies have been published in top international academic and practitioner journals, and his papers have received more than 2,000 citations in leading journals and books. He is the winner of the 2010 Outstanding Author Contribution Award. Professor Weber is co-founder and co-president of the EuroMed Research Business Institute (www.emrbi.com), the EuroMed Academy of Business, and the EuroMed Research Centre. EMRBI performs a variety of international academic and business activities (conferences, business research, teaching, training programs, and so on) that involve businesses and consultants in, and related to, the EuroMed region.

 

Shlomo Y. Tarba, Ph.D. is a lecturer in Strategic Management and Global Strategic Partnerships at the Management School, The University of Sheffield, UK. He received his Ph.D. from Ben-Gurion University and master’s degree in biotechnology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His research papers has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Perspectives, International Studies of Management & Organization, Thunderbird International Business Review, International Journal of Cross- Cultural Management, Human Resource Management Review, Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, and others. Dr. Tarba has served as a guest editor for the special issues on Strategic Agility at California Management Review; Organizational Ambidexterity at Human Resource Management; Maturing Born-Global Knowledge Intensive Firms at Management International Review; Emotions, Culture, and Stress in the Interorganizational Encounters at International Business Review; and others. He was granted the 2010 Outstanding Author Contribution Award by Emerald Publishing. His consulting experience includes biotechnological and telecom companies, as well as industry associations such as The Israeli Rubber and Plastic Industry Association and The U.S.–Israel Chamber of Commerce.

 

Christina Öberg, Ph.D. is an associate professor at the Department of Industrial Management and Logistics, Lund University. She currently conducts research at the Centre for Innovation and Service Research, University of Exeter. She received her Ph.D. in industrial marketing from Linköping University. She has an industry background in which she held such positions as financial manager and head accountant. Her research interests include mergers and acquisitions, brands and identities, customer relationships, and innovation management. She has previously been published in journals such as Journal of Business Research, Construction Management and Economics, International Journal of Innovation Management, European Journal of Marketing, The Service Industries Journal, Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Thunderbird International Business Review, and Industrial Marketing Management.

 

From the Back Cover:

“Weber, Tarba, and Öberg have provided the most comprehensive guide for understanding mergers and acquisitions that has ever been published. They explore the pre-planning, negotiation, and integration phases of this important phenomenon in a practical and scholarly way. This book is a must-read for all senior managers, HR professionals, and academics working in the field.”

-Prof. Cary L. Cooper, CBE Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health and Co-Editor of the annual series, Advances in Mergers & Acquisitions

 

An Integrated Model for M&A Value Creation

• How to optimize the entire M&A process, from early planning to successful integration
• Covers strategy, systematic quantitative and qualitative synergy potential and cultural differences analyses, screening, negotiation, due diligence, communication strategy, HR practices, leadership, trust, and more
• For every M&A strategist, decision-maker, top executive, middle manager, consultant, investor, planner, and implementer

At least half of all mergers and acquisitions do not achieve their objectives; by some estimates, failure rates are even higher. Yet some combinations do deliver exceptional short- and long-term value, and businesses continue to find compelling strategic reasons to pursue them. Now, drawing on the experiences of both successful and failed M&As, Yaakov Weber offers a complete blueprint for maximizing M&A value across every stage of the process.

 

Weber introduces proven tools and best practices for realistically assessing potential synergies and cultural differences challenges; performing effective due diligence; rationally negotiating an appropriate price and terms; and overcoming cultural differences (both domestic and global). He especially focuses on successful planning and implementation, covering issues ranging from establishing the M&A leadership to promoting human capital and building customer trust.

About this edition

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0133014150
• ISBN 13: 9780133014150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240