In this article, we study how a firm’s stakeholder orientation affects the performance of its corporate acquisitions. We depart from prior literature and suggest that orientations toward employees, customers, suppliers, and local communities will affect long-term acquisition performance both directly and through its interactions with process characteristics, such as preacquisition relatedness and postacquisition integration. Analyses of data on a sample of 1884 acquisitions show overall a positive association between acquirers’ stakeholder orientation and acquisition performance. In addition, we find support for a positive moderation of business relatedness on the performance impacts of stakeholder orientation. Structural integration has a similarly positive moderation effect only for some of the stakeholder categories.
Reference:
Emanuele Bettinazzi and Maurizio Zollo. 2017. Stakeholder Orientation and Acquisition Performance, Strategic Management Journal, 38(12): 2465-2485: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smj.2672/full
