This Handbook looks at how the resources and capabilities of organizations emerge and develop over time.

• Written by leading figures in the field.
  
• Presents original new theory.
  
• Features ground-breaking empirical studies.
  
• Draws on a broad range of empirical methods - case studies, statistical analysis, and simulations.
  
• Offers thought-provoking commentary on streams of research.
  
• Provides a basis for future research and practice.

This book reviews both successful and unsuccessful mergers and acquisitions, exploring the reasons why so many fail to live up to expectations.

• An exploration of why mergers and acquisitions succeed or fail, based on rigorous scholarly research.
  
• Stretches the boundaries of what we know about these complex phenomena.
  
• Presents original ideas about the merger and acquisition strategy, the effects of mergers and acquisitions on performance, and the critical processes involved in implementation and integration.
  
• Explores...

Darwin Porter, a native of North Carolina, and Danforth Prince lived in France for many years. Darwin worked in television advertising and as a bureau chief for the "Miami Herald." Danforth, who began writing guides with Darwin in 1982, worked for the Paris bureau of the "New York Times." They are also the authors of "Frommer's France" and "Frommer's Provence & the Riviera, " among many other guides.

This volume introduces a new concept - strategic entrepreneurship - which integrates the insights of entrepreneurship and strategic management.

• This volume describes a new concept - strategic entrepreneurship - which fuses the insights of entrepreneurship and strategic management.
  
• The editors have invited the world's finest entrepreneurship and strategic management scholars to contribute chapters on key issues that are influencing research in both fields, and to integrate findings across the two.
  
• Investigates the overlap between...