EMBEDDEDNESS ACROSS GOVERNANCE MODES: IS THERE A LINK BETWEEN PREMERGER ALLIANCES AND DIVESTITURES?

Oliver Schilke, Han Jiang

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Abstract

The present study explores whether and how an organization’s different types of governance modes—alliances, mergers, and divestitures—may be intertwined over time. As such, we consider whether boundary decisions may be socially embedded not just within, but across different governance modes. In particular, we focus the analysis on a specific three-stage temporal sequence, which represents a common trajectory of consecutive governance modes: (1) alliance, followed by (2) merger, followed by (3) divestiture. Based on data from the Securities Data Company (SDC) Platinum database and the Compustat database, our survival analysis results indicate that premerger alliances are significantly associated with divestiture likelihood: mergers between organizations that had been involved in an alliance before entering into the merger are found less likely to be divested. The article’s results underline the merits of simultaneously considering multiple types of ties when analyzing issues related to organizational embeddedness, complement recent research on sequential corporate strategy patterns, and shed new light on the important empirical phenomenon of premerger alliances.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)137-151
Number of pages15
JournalAcademy of Management Discoveries
Volume5
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2019

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Business and International Management
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Strategy and Management
  • Industrial relations

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