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Making great minds think alike: Emerging market multinational firms’ leadership effects on targets’ employee psychological safety after cross-border mergers and acquisitions

Rao-Nicholson, Rekha, Khan, Zaheer, Stokes, Peter (2015) Making great minds think alike: Emerging market multinational firms’ leadership effects on targets’ employee psychological safety after cross-border mergers and acquisitions. International Business Review, 25 (1 A). pp. 103-113. ISSN 0969-5931. (doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2015.09.007) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:59838)

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Abstract

This paper examines the impact of leadership on targets’ employee psychological safety (EPS), characterized by employees’ expectation of job and remuneration stability, during the cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) by emerging market multinational companies (EMNEs). The M&As by Indian and Chinese companies forms the empirical context of this study and the case survey method is used to examine the effect of leadership on EPS. The results show that the EMNEs’ leadership visibility during the M&A process has no impact on the EPS, whereas, the trust in the EMNEs’ leadership has positive effect on the EPS. The deal status has a moderating effect on the leadership visibility and positively affects the EPS. This research finds evidence of target country differences in terms of the effect of EMNEs’ leadership on EPS and limited evidence of such effect for acquirer nationality differences.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2015.09.007
Uncontrolled keywords: Employee psychological safety, Leadership, Emerging market multinational firms, M&As, India, China
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Marketing, Entrepreneurship and International Business
Depositing User: Zaheer Khan
Date Deposited: 11 Jan 2017 11:28 UTC
Last Modified: 05 Nov 2024 10:52 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/59838 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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