MorganN.A., ‘Successful Growth by Acquisition’, Journal of General Management, Vol. 14, No. 2, Winter, 1988.
2.
LoveJ.H., and ScoullerJ.‘Growth by Acquisition: the Lessons of Experience’,Journal of General Management, Vol. 15, No. 3, Spring, 1990.
3.
PorterM.E., ‘From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy’,Harvard Business Review, May-June, 1987.
4.
SheltonL.M., ‘Strategic Business Fits and Corporate Acquisitions: Empirical Evidence’, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 9, pp. 279-87, 1988.
5.
PayneA.F., ‘Approaching Acquisitions Strategically’, Journal of General Management, Vol. 13, No. 2, Winter, 1987.
6.
A good review of the relevant literature can be found in Payne, op. cit.
7.
The data in this section have been derived from Acquisitions Monthly, various editions.
8.
BuckleyA.‘Growth by Acquisition’,Long Range Planning, August 1975. Business International, ‘Acquisitions in Europe’, Business International Research Report, 1982. - ‘Acquisitions Strategy in Europe’, Business International Research Report, 1987. Cooke, T.E., Mergers and Acquisitions, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986. -International Mergers and Acquisitions, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1988. Hamill, J., ‘British Acquisitions in the US’, National Westminster Bank Quarterly Review, August, 1988. -‘US Acquisitions and the Internationalisation of British Industry’, Acquisitions Monthly, November, 1988. Love, J.H. and Scouller, J., ‘Growth by Acquisition: the Lessons of Experience’, Journal of General Management, Vol. 15, No. 3, Spring, 1990. Morgan, N.A., ‘Successful Growth by Acquisition’, Journal of General Management, Vol. 14, No. 2, Winter, 1988. Steiner, P.O., Mergers: Motives, Effects, Control, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1975.
9.
Many of these interviews were published in a series of case study articles appearing in Acquisitions Monthly during 1989. These include, ‘Buying in the US Building Sector’, April; ‘Acquiring in the US Food and Drink Industry’, May; ‘What Dixons Has Gained From Cyclops’, June; ‘Ferranti's Merger With ISC‘, July; ‘Salvesen's US Strategy‘, August; ‘Low and Bonar’, September; ‘US Acquisitions by the Dowty Group’, October; ‘US Acquisitions by Smith and Nephew’, November.
10.
See, for example, JauchL.R., and GlueckW.F.Business Policy and Strategic Management, McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 24-6, 1988.
11.
PayneA.F., ‘Approaching Acquisitions Strategically’, Journal of General Management, Vol. 13, No. 2, Winter, 1987.
12.
SheltonL.M., ‘Strategic Business Fits and Corporate Acquisitions: Empirical Evidence’, Strategic Management Journal Vol. 9, pp. 279-87, 1988.
