Cary L. Cooper - Mergers and Acquisitions in Practice

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Timo Aarrevaara is a Professor of Public Management at the University of Lapland, and has professional experience in public administration as well as in research and teaching. Aarrevaara has participated in and conducted several evaluating and auditing projects, and acted as the principal investigator of a number of projects in higher education, including The changing academic profession survey in Finland (CAP), The changing academic profession: the impact of globalisation, diversification and institutional reorganisation on academic work and employment conditions in Finland (EUROAC-FIN), and Public Engagement Innovations for Horizon 2020 (PE2020, pilot initiatives). Professor Aarrevaara has strong international higher education research links, and is a co-editor of Springers The Changing Academy Series and author or co-author of several papers and book chapters.

Mohammad F. Ahammad is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Strategy and International Business at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Professor Ahammad is a researcher in the field of global strategy, international business, and human resource management. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Sheffield. He has published his research studies in Human Resource Management (US, Wiley), International Journal of Human Resource Management , International Business Review , International Marketing Review , International Studies of Management & Organization , European Journal of International Management , and others. Professor Ahammad has served as a guest editor for special issues at the International Journal of Human Resource Management , Human Resource Management Review , International Studies of Management & Organizations , and Thunderbird International Business Review . His current projects include: strategic agility, organizational ambidexterity, pre-acquisition evaluation, negotiations, post-acquisition integration issues, and cross-border acquisition performance.

Ruth Alas , Estonian Business School, Tallinn, Estonia.

Tiiu Allikme , Estonian Business School, Tallinn, Estonia.

Florian Bauer is a Professor in the Department of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism, University of Innsbruck, and Department of Management and Law, MCI Management Centre, Innsbruck, Austria.

Agyenim Boateng is Professor of Finance and Banking in the Department of Finance, Accounting, and Risk at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.

Fang Lee Cooke , Monash University, Australia.

Sir Cary L. Cooper is 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. Professor Cooper is the author/editor of over 140 books on occupational stress, industrial and organizational psychology, and over 500 scholarly articles. He is currently founding editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior , editor-in-chief of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance . He served as a guest editor for special issues at the Journal of Management Studies , Human Resource Management , International Journal of Human Resource Management , and others. Professor Coopers work has been published in such journals as Academy of Management Journal , Journal of Management , Academy of Management Executive , Personnel Psychology , Journal of Management Studies , Human Resource Management , Human Relations , British Journal of Management , Management Learning , Management International Review , and others. He is an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society and former Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Cooper is President of the British Academy of Management, one of the first UK-based Fellows of the (American) Academy of Management, and President of the CIPD. In 2001, he was awarded a CBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List. In June 2014, he was awarded a knighthood for services to social science.

Christoph Drrenbcher , Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany.

Tiit Elenurm , Estonian Business School, Tallinn, Estonia.

Fabian Jintae Froese , University of Goettingen, Germany.

Lars Geschwind is Associate Professor in Engineering Education Policy and Management, Research Leader and Director of Doctoral Studies at the School of Education and Communication in Engineering Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He holds a PhD in History from Uppsala University and is affiliated to the Research Unit for Studies in Educational Policy and Educational Philosophy (STEP) at the same university. His main research interests are higher education policy, institutional governance, academic leadership, and management and academic work. He is currently leading a number of projects focusing on change processes in higher education institutions, including e.g. governance and steering, quality assurance, academic careers, and partnership with industry. Most studies include a comparative component and a historical perspective. He has recently published and co-edited a book (Springer 2016) and a peer-reviewed journal ( European Journal of Higher Education ) on the topic mergers in higher education.

Steffen Robert Giessner , Department of Organization and Personnel Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands.

Keith W. Glaister is Professor of International Business at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK.

Paulina Junni , Department of Strategy and Logistics, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway.

David Kroon , VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Ian P. L. Kwan , School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Navarra, Spain.