We are presently conducting a meta-analysis on the antecedents of the
formation of Alliances, Joint ventures and Mergers and Acquisitions, and
their subsequent symbolic and substantive performance effects. Although we
have tried to make our literature search as exhaustive as possible, we
must inevitably have missed or overlooked several important studies. We
therefore would like to ask you kindly to send us any other papers on the
formation of Alliances, Joint Ventures and Mergers and/or Acquisitions,
and their subsequent performance effects, you may have written in the
past. Unpublished working papers, book chapters, dissertations, and other
difficult to retrieve sources are especially valuable to us.
If at all possible, please include full effect size information for each
additional study you send us. Especially a correlation table listing all
dependent (e.g., ALLIANCE, JOINT VENTURE, MERGER AND/OR ACQUISITION,
SYMBOLIC PERFORMANCE; or SUBSTANTIVE PERFORMANCE) or independent variables
(e.g. RESOURCE DEPENDENCE, UNCERTAINTY, ASSET SPECIFICITY,
COMPLEMENTARITY, SIMILARITY), you may have used in your analyses would be
most helpful.
In case you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact
us directly.
All the best, and many thanks for your cooperation,
Johannes M. Drees
Tom Elfring
Paul W. Vlaar
VU University Amsterdam
The Netherlands
please send any work and other correspondence to:
jdrees@feweb.vu.nl