Dear OMT community (apologies for cross-postings),
We are presently conducting a meta-analysis on the antecedents of the formation of Alliances, Joint ventures and Mergers and Acquisitions, and their subsequent symbolic and substantive performance effects. Although we have tried to make our literature search as exhaustive as possible, we must inevitably have missed or overlooked several important studies. We therefore would like to ask you kindly to send us any other published and unpublished papers on the formation of Alliances, Joint Ventures and Mergers and/or Acquisitions, and their subsequent performance effects, you may have written in the past. Unpublished working papers, book chapters, dissertations, and other difficult to retrieve sources are especially valuable to us.
If at all possible, please include full effect size information for each additional study you send us. Especially a correlation table listing all dependent (e.g., ALLIANCE, JOINT VENTURE, MERGER AND/OR ACQUISITION, SYMBOLIC PERFORMANCE; or SUBSTANTIVE PERFORMANCE) or independent variables (e.g. RESOURCE DEPENDENCE, UNCERTAINTY, ASSET SPECIFICITY, COMPLEMENTARITY, SIMILARITY), you may have used in your analyses would be most helpful.
In case you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us directly.
All the best, and many thanks for your cooperation,
Johannes M. Drees
Tom Elfring
Paul W. Vlaar
VU University Amsterdam
The Netherlands
please send any work and other correspondence to:
jdrees@feweb.vu.nl
Johannes M. Drees
VU University Amsterdam
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Department of Management & Organisation
De Boelelaan 1105
1081 HV Amsterdam
jdrees@feweb.vu.nl