Cross-border mergers and acquisitions: links between acquiring firm capabilities and resources and target country location

Ronaldo Parente, Ryder Eminent Scholar Fellow and Professor of Strategy and International Business at Florida International University and FGV-Ebape. His research has been accepted and appeared in many leading academic journals including the Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Ethics and Industrial and Corporate Change, etc.

Keith James Kelley is an Assistant Professor of International Business at the School of Management, University of Michigan-Flint. His primary research interests are in strategic management and international business with an emphasis on non-traditional performance measures of international diversification such as reputation management and the creation of shared value. His work also focuses on the strategic management of new technologies such as Web 2.0 and artificial intelligence related to signaling and risk management.

Yannick Thams is an Associate Professor of Strategy and International Business at Suffolk University Sawyer Business School. Her primary research interests are in the areas of International Business, Strategic Human Capital and CEO Succession.

Marcelo J. Alvarado-Vargas is an Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business and Innovation at the University of Toledo, USA. His research interests are in the areas of strategic management, firm innovation and technology management and corporate reputation.