The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Corporate Stakeholder Practices

One of the intriguing unanswered research questions is ‘what is the impact of mergers and acquisitions (MA acquirers show more strengths in the diversity category and more concerns related to products. For pre- and post-merger target and merged firms, the data show more strengths and concerns related to specific stakeholders for the merged firm compared with the pre-merger target, which seemed to lose some more innovative practices. Similarly, there is a fairly consistent pattern showing both more stakeholder-related strengths and concerns in merged compared with pre-merger acquiring firms. ● Mergers and acquisitions ● Stakeholder relationships ● Resource-based view ● Stakeholder practices ● Diversity ● Employees ● Environment ● Corporate governance