Acquisition Premiums, Subsequent Workforce Reductions and Post-Acquisition Performance

Understanding Defense Acquisition Workforce Challenges

Acquisition Premiums and Performance Improvements for Acquirers and Targets in the Lodging Industry

Given that the stated purpose of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is to create value for the newly merged firm, the M&A offer premium ought to be positively related to the realized benefits or realized synergies that result from combining the target and the acquirer. Not all empirical evidence supports this notion, however. Because some M&A activities have not been found to be consistently value ...

Post-acquisition inventory levels

Merging companies typically anticipate inventory reductions through pooling of inventory, higher purchasing power or elimination of planning uncertainties in a wider supply chain. In contrasts, companies appear to experience an inventory build-up in the quarters after an acquisition. This is the first attempt that I am aware of to develop an understanding for when, how and why the inventory bui...

Measuring Acquisition Workforce Quality Through Dynamic Knowledge and Performance: An Exploratory Investigation to Interrelate Acquisition Knowledge With Process Maturity

The efficacy of defense acquisition is highly dependent upon acquisition workforce quality, but assessing such quality remains a major challenge, particularly given the knowledgeintensive and dynamic nature of acquisition organizations and processes. Hence, it is difficult to gauge—much less predict—the impact of leadership interventions in terms of policy, process, regulation, organization, ed...

Bilingualism and L3 Acquisition

مقاله حاضر کنش زبانی دوزبانه‌های آذری‌زبان و تک‌زبانه‌های فارسی‌ زبان را در فرایند یادگیری زبان سوم مورد بررسی قرار می‌دهد. پژوهش‌های موجود درباره توانایی‌های فرازبانی و شناختی زبان‌آموزان‌ کودک حاکی از این است که دوزبانه‌ها با توجه به کسب تجارب قبلی در یادگیری زبان دوم،در فراگیری زبان سوم موفق‌تر بوده و کنش زبانی آنها متفاوت‌تر از تک‌زبانه‌ها خواهد بود. در این تحقیق کنش زبانی دو گروه ده نفری ا...