Mergers and acquisitions play a major role in shaping business activities worldwide, and consequently, is a widely researched area within the field of business and management. It is also a multi-disciplinary area, with very few topics cutting across so many different functional areas of business or generating interest across such a wide range of groups as this one. This three-volume major work critically examines the research on the "soft side" of mergers and acquisitions, i.e. strategy and organizational issues. The major work covers the following topics:

Volume I: Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

" Merger Trends

" Corporate Strategy and M&A

" Merger Types

" Theoretical Explanations for M&A

Volume II: The M&A Process

" Acquisition Analysis

" Negotiation Process

" Decision Making Processes

" Stakeholder Effects of M&A

Volume III: Post-Merger Integration

" Corporate Governance

" 2. Integration Capabilities

" 3. Value Creation