"Mergers and acquisitions play a major role in shaping business activities worldwide, and consequently, is a widely researched area within the field of business and management. It is also a multi-disciplinary area, with very few topics cutting across so many different functional areas of business or generating interest across such a wide range of groups as this one. This three-volume major work critically examines the research on the "soft side" of mergers and acquisitions, i.e. strategy and organizational issues."--Publisher's website.