Why Companies Do Not Pursue Attractive Mergers and Acquisitions ...

Structure and Style

Layout and Signposts

The chapter introductions include summaries of main points. Taken by themselves, they are detailed enough to provide casual readers who want an overview of the book (or selected parts of it) an alternative to a complete review.

Topic Areas

There are suggestions about the nature and sequence of topics that should be covered in works based on similar kinds of research. Some describe multicase studies (Perry, 1994; Yin, 1994; Zalan & Lewis, 2004). However, there are no generally accepted conventions (Creswell, 1998). It was assumed that prospective readers are familiar with works that describe survey-based research, for this is the predominant method used by authors in the disciplines from which this study draws. I have sought, therefore, to structure this document more along traditional positivist lines than many social science works using case studies.