Corporate Acquisitions: A Process Perspective
提出用过程视角补充传统的选择视角，认为收购过程本身可能影响活动与结果，并给出四个过程障碍如何影响收购结果的研究假设。
Historically, acquisition scholars and practitioners have adopted a choice perspective which portrays the corporate executive analyzing acquisition opportunities as a rational decision maker. This paper suggests that the choice perspective be supplemented with a process perspective which recognizes the acquisition process itself as a potentially important determinant of activities and outcomes. A series of research propositions is offered suggesting how four impediments present in the process itself might affect acquisition outcomes.