Introduction; Cary L. Cooper and Sydney Finkelstein  Chapter 1 Alliances to Acquisitions: a road map to advance the field of strategic management; Rimi Zakaria and Omer F. Genc  Chapter 2 Pre-M&A "Leadership"?: might behavioral due diligence assessment be the answer?; Judith Gebhardt  Chapter 3 The Decision to Retain and Reduce Human Resources in Mergers and Acquisitions; Ralph E. McKinney Jr, Lawrence P. Shao, Dale H. Shao and Marjorie L. McInerney  Chapter 4 Strategic Investment Appraisal: multidisciplinary perspectives; Fadi Alkaraan  Chapter 5 Can SPACs Ensure M&A Success?; Kamal Ghosh Ray and Sangita Ghosh Ray  Chapter 6 Mergers and Acquisitions Revisited: the role of business model relatedness; Timo Sohl and Govert Vroom  Chapter 7 Training During Transitions: the context of a developing economy; Anjali Bansal  Chapter 8 Dissecting Post-Merger Integration Risk: the PMI risk framework; Terrill L. Frantz  Chapter 9 Getting Beyond Culture Clashes: a process model of post-merger order negotiation; Muriel Mignerat and Katty Marmenout  Chapter 10 A Stakeholder Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions; David J. Burns & Nick Collett

Business, management, and other researchers from the US, UK, Asia, Europe, and Canada provide 10 essays on aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including pre-merger/acquisition, strategic decisions, post-merger/acquisition, and ethical issues. They discuss firms with strategic alliances that are moving into acquisitions, the management styles of organizations, the decision to retain and reduce human resources, strategic investment appraisals, the role of special purpose acquisition companies, how business model relatedness influences performance implications in mergers and acquisitions, training during the transition stage, the PMI (post-merger integration) risk framework for classifying and identifying risks that might inhibit post-merger success, post-merger order negotiation, and ethical evaluations of the impacts of mergers and acquisitions.