How nostalgia facilitates post-acquisition target employee retention: An Agenda for Future Research
挑战了怀旧阻碍变革的传统观点，提出怀旧能通过增强自我连续性、社会联结等心理益处，抵消收购带来的负面效应，为管理者利用怀旧提升变革成功提供新思路。
Conventional wisdom and the literature on organizational change management suggest that nostalgia, the sentimental longing for the past, is a maladaptive strategy to facilitate change. However, drawing on recent advances, we develop a theoretical framework to describe how the nuanced emotion of nostalgia countervails the negative effects of psychological perturbations and environmental conditions associated with change events. Our framework highlights the importance of nostalgia and its psychological benefits, namely, self-continuity, social connectedness, positive affect, and meaningfulness. Based on this framework, we provide insights into how management can strategically leverage nostalgia to increase change success, as we focus on the context of acquisitions—a significant change event for organizations and their employees.