Talent management during mergers and acquisitions

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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) continue to be a key component of companies’ growth strategies. However, research continues to find that M&A have failure rates ranging anywhere from 50-90%, and talent management has been found to be a key reason for the high failure rates. This chapter addresses talent management in the M&A environment by providing a synopsis and integration of existing academic, theoretical, and practitioner literature addressing: the importance of talent management to general firm and M&A success, the scarcity of research into talent management in the M&A environment including an overview of past research and a summary of several recent studies on the topic, the complexities in the study and practice of talent management in M&A, three key components of talent management in the M&A setting (talent retention; talent engagement; and talent staffing, selection, and deselection), talent management in cross-border M&A, and proposed areas of future research.

Authors: Galpin, T

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Routledge
• Host title: Contemporary Talent Management: A Research Companion
• Pages: 351-167
• Chapter number: 18
• Series: Routledge Research Companions in Business and Economics
• Publication date: 2021-09-17
• Edition: 1st
• ISBN: 9781032022970
• Language: English
• Keywords: talent; acquisitions; SBTMR; mergers; management
• Subtype: Chapter