Reframing Mergers and Acquisitions around Stakeholder Relationships: Economic, Political and Social Processes
About this ebook
Viewing M&A activity as economic, political, and social (EPS) processes, Segal provides a dialectic understanding of stakeholder relationships around M&A activity and challenges the view that M&A activity is static, linear, and predictable. He develops a conceptual framework to enable practitioners, researchers and policymakers to identify, understand and address the stakeholder and management implications of M&A activity. This is applied to four case studies that make explicit how complex stakeholder relationships play out around M&A and how these power dynamics were managed with different balances.
Useful for academics, researchers, managers, advisors, investors, analysts, and other stakeholders, this book highlights the need to understand the EPS implications and processes involved around M&A.
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About the author
Simon Segal covers M&A as a journalist/editor/commentator. He was awarded his PhD in 2021 for a thesis titled "Understanding and managing dynamic stakeholder relationships around mergers and acquisitions." He started the Australian bureau of Mergermarket in 2005, was Australia bureau chief and editor of Dealreporter Asia and is currently Editorial Consultant at Dealreporter and a director at Mergermarket Australia.
James Guthrie AM is Emeritus Professor of Accounting at Macquarie Business School, Australia. He has published 220 articles in international and national refereed and professional journals and over 50 books or chapters in books.
John Dumay is Professor in Accounting and Finance at Macquarie Business School, Australia. He previously worked for over 15 years as an independent business consultant, beginning an academic career in 2008.
