...Jennifer Linda Dorling Purpose Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are major corporate changes and are among the most stressful for employees. Employee resistance is a well-recognised reason for high failure rates of post-merger integration (PMI). The contemporary concept of psychological capital...

... has established that there is a clear connection between knowledge transfer and M&A success (Capron, 1999 ; Zollo and Singh, 2004). The proponents of the process perspective constantly argue that M&A’s value creation and a firm’s competitive advantage are achieved by means of the knowledge...