The process of identifying and evaluating a target firm, completing a deal after its negotiation and announcement, and then integrating a target firm after legal combination is a multi-year process with uncertain returns to acquiring firms. Research on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) is progressing rapidly yet it remains fragmented across multiple research perspectives that largely examine different acquisition phases separately and coincide with a focus on different research variables. As a result, research fragmentation means that a researcher in one area may be unaware of research from related areas that is likely relevant. This contributes to research silos with M&A research displaying different traditions, starting points, and assumptions. Mergers and Acquisitions: A Research Overview summarizes the frontier in M&A research and provides insights into where it can be expanded. It undertakes the needed integration and reconciliation of research in order to derive practical knowledge for managing acquisitions from beginning to end, providing a summary of what is known and its implications for future research. This concise overview reconciles and integrates the state of the art in our understanding of mergers and acquisitions, providing an essential first stopping point in the research journey of students and scholars working in this area.

The process of identifying and evaluating a target firm, completing a deal after its negotiation and announcement, and then integrating a target firm after legal combination is a multi-year process with uncertain returns to acquiring firms. Research on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) is progressing rapidly yet it remains fragmented across multiple research perspectives that largely examine different acquisition phases separately and coincide with a focus on different research variables. As a result, research fragmentation means that a researcher in one area may be unaware of research from related areas that is likely relevant. This contributes to research silos with M&A research displaying different traditions, starting points, and assumptions. Mergers and Acquisitions: A Research Overview summarizes the frontier in M&A research and provides insights into where it can be expanded. It undertakes the needed integration and reconciliation of research in order to derive practical knowledge for managing acquisitions from beginning to end, providing a summary of what is known and its implications for future research. This concise overview reconciles and integrates the state of the art in our understanding of mergers and acquisitions, providing an essential first stopping point in the research journey of students and scholars working in this area.

Die bestehende M&A-Forschung kann als stark fragmentiert bezeichnet werden und hat sich in unterschiedliche thematische Richtungen entwickelt und spezialisiert. Florian A. Bauer entwickelt ein phasen- und denkschulenubergreifendes Untersuchungsmodell, das zentrale Konstrukte unterschiedlicher Denkschulen der Pre-Merger-Phase (strategische Komplementaritat und kulturelle Kompatibilitat) mit Themenbereichen der Post-Merger-Phase (Integrationsgrad und Integrationsgeschwindigkeit) verbindet und deren Wechselwirkungen mit dem M&A-Erfolg analysiert."

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 1,3, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Deutsche Literatur und griechische Antike, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die antike griechische Kunst und Literatur pragt die westliche Kultur bis heute. Besonders ausgepragt war die Rezeption der griechischen antiken Kultur in Deutschland in den Epochen der Klassik und Decadence. Bemerkenswert ist, dass sich Vertreter beider Epochen trotz ihrer starken Gegensatze auf die Werke der Antike berufen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit soll gezeigt werden, wie die philosophischen Schriften des Fin de Siecle, Nietzsches "Geburt der Tragodie aus dem Geiste der Musik" und Rosenkranz' "Asthetik des Hasslichen" trotz der Referenz auf eine gemeinsame Quelle die Ansichten der Klassik von Winckelmann bis Goethe umdeuten und umkehren.