When East meets West: the impact of national cultural differences on Asia Pacific Acquirers’ performance improvement

The dissertation investigates the net effect of national cultural difference on long-term performance improvement of acquirers from Asia Pacific compared to those from North American & Western Europe. It is a counterbalance to the current double-layered bias in culture difference researches in t...

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Main Author: Pham, Dong Nghi
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46343/
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description The dissertation investigates the net effect of national cultural difference on long-term performance improvement of acquirers from Asia Pacific compared to those from North American & Western Europe. It is a counterbalance to the current double-layered bias in culture difference researches in term of negativity-focused conceptual vein and Western-dominated empirical sample. Positive and negative impacts of national cultural difference is reframed into an integrating framework. The empirical study is conducted on two samples consisted of 859 cross-border M&As in total during a 5-year period from 2009 to 2014, accounted for several country-, firm-, time-, and deal-level effects. My results show that while M&A into a culturally distant country would have an adverse impact on performance enhancement of Western acquirers, they do not dampen performance improvement of acquirers from Asia Pacific. This supports the hypothesis that due to their Cultural, Institutional, Psychological, and Behavioural attributes, AP acquirers can better mitigate negative impacts of CD whilst better leveraging CD’s positive influences.
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spelling nottingham-463432018-04-17T15:03:59Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46343/ When East meets West: the impact of national cultural differences on Asia Pacific Acquirers’ performance improvement Pham, Dong Nghi The dissertation investigates the net effect of national cultural difference on long-term performance improvement of acquirers from Asia Pacific compared to those from North American & Western Europe. It is a counterbalance to the current double-layered bias in culture difference researches in term of negativity-focused conceptual vein and Western-dominated empirical sample. Positive and negative impacts of national cultural difference is reframed into an integrating framework. The empirical study is conducted on two samples consisted of 859 cross-border M&As in total during a 5-year period from 2009 to 2014, accounted for several country-, firm-, time-, and deal-level effects. My results show that while M&A into a culturally distant country would have an adverse impact on performance enhancement of Western acquirers, they do not dampen performance improvement of acquirers from Asia Pacific. This supports the hypothesis that due to their Cultural, Institutional, Psychological, and Behavioural attributes, AP acquirers can better mitigate negative impacts of CD whilst better leveraging CD’s positive influences. 2017-09-14 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46343/1/DONG%20NGHI%20PHAM%20_MSC%20DISSERTATION%20_%204281980.pdf Pham, Dong Nghi (2017) When East meets West: the impact of national cultural differences on Asia Pacific Acquirers’ performance improvement. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] Cross-border M&A Cultural Difference Asia Pacific
spellingShingle Cross-border M&A
Cultural Difference
Asia Pacific
Pham, Dong Nghi
When East meets West: the impact of national cultural differences on Asia Pacific Acquirers’ performance improvement
title When East meets West: the impact of national cultural differences on Asia Pacific Acquirers’ performance improvement
title_full When East meets West: the impact of national cultural differences on Asia Pacific Acquirers’ performance improvement
title_fullStr When East meets West: the impact of national cultural differences on Asia Pacific Acquirers’ performance improvement
title_full_unstemmed When East meets West: the impact of national cultural differences on Asia Pacific Acquirers’ performance improvement
title_short When East meets West: the impact of national cultural differences on Asia Pacific Acquirers’ performance improvement
title_sort when east meets west: the impact of national cultural differences on asia pacific acquirers’ performance improvement
topic Cross-border M&A
Cultural Difference
Asia Pacific
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46343/