Outbound Japanese M&A and Target Employees

• Project/Area Number: 16K03863
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: Bebenroth Ralf 神戸大学, 経済経営研究所, 教授 (80403228)
• Research Collaborator: Malik Ashish ; Bartnik Roman
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: 合併 / 買収 / 統合 / M&A / Target Employees / Post integration / Japan / Mergers and Acquisitions / HRM / Language / Integration Period / Outbound M&A

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I studied outbound M&A actvities of Japanese firms in regard to employee perspectives. Alone in the year of 2019, I will publish 6 articles, 5 of them at listed international and blind reviewed journals. As I promised in my application, I interviewed the German target firm, overtaken by a Japanese steel maker and there were several other outputs, I could publish. Also, I attended international conferences covered by Kaken support.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

研究目的として海外に行う日本の企業に調査したました。この研究は、目的通りドイツとアウストラリアにやりました。そのため研究のために、ドイツとアウストラリアに行って参りました。ドイツはアンケート調査を行ったとアウストラリアでは共同研究を行いました。すべて、さま様な研究を出来ました。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 被買収企業の従業員におけるアイデンティフィケーションの変化 (2019)
  • Author(s): Ralf Bebenroth
  • Journal Title: 国民経済雑誌 Volume: 2 Pages: 25-37
• [Journal Article] Japanese Cross Border M&A and German Target Employee Alienation Issues (2018)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth and Bartnik
  • Journal Title: Strat. HRM and Employment Relations Volume: 1 Pages: 175-180
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Internet resources and capabilities Japanese SME risk-taking, industry and performance (2018)
  • Author(s): Mathews, S. W., Maruyama, M., Sakurai, Y., Bebenroth, R., Luck, E., Chen, H. L., & Franco, E.
  • Journal Title: European Journal of Training and Development Volume: 1 Pages: 675-692
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Differentiating knowledge transfer and technology transfer: What should an organizational manager need to know (2018)
  • Author(s): Ismail, Raba’ah Hamzah, Bebenroth
  • Journal Title: European Journal of Training and Development Volume: 42-9 Pages: 611-628
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Changes in Target Employees’ Old and Current Organizational Identification and the Impact of Motivational Cultural Intelligence (2018)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth, R. and Ismail
  • Journal Title: European Journal of Social Sciences Volume: 56 Pages: 403-415
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Mind your language!: Role of language in strategic partnerships and post-merger integration (2018)
  • Author(s): Malik, A.,and Bebenroth, R.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing Volume: 11-2 Pages: 202-223
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Mind Your Language! Role of Language in Strategic Partnerships and Post-Merger Integration (2018)
  • Author(s): Malik and Bebenroth
  • Journal Title: Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing Volume: - Issue: 2 Pages: 202-223
  • DOI: 10.1108/jgoss-05-2017-0011
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Pilots’ perceptions of justice and job identification (2017)
  • Author(s): Goehlich and Bebenroth
  • Journal Title: World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research Volume: 6 Issue: 4 Pages: 291-305
  • DOI: 10.1504/writr.2017.088925
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] US-Cross-Border Acquisitions by Japanese Firms. Lessons to be learned from the Late 1980s (2017)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth and Chen
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Engineering Technologies and Management Research Volume: 4 Pages: 48-58
  • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1098405
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] When organizational justice matters for affective merger commitment (2016)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth, R., & Thiele, K.O.
  • Journal Title: Thunderbird International Business Review Volume: 59 Issue: 2 Pages: 227-241
  • DOI: 10.1002/tie.21820
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Baishu sareta Nikkei Kigyou ni okeru juugyouin: Shinriteki na joukyou. (2016)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth, R.
  • Journal Title: Kokumin Keizai Zashi Volume: 214-6 Pages: 1-18
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] Organizational justice and organizational identification of millennials in mergers and acquisitions: a conceptual framework. (2016)
  • Author(s): Ismail, M., and Bebenroth, R
  • Journal Title: European Journal of Social Sciences Volume: 51-4 Pages: 397-409
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Organizational Identification as Perceived by Merger and Acquisition Employees (2016)
  • Author(s): Ismail, M., Baki, N. U., Omar, Z., and Bebenroth, R.
  • Journal Title: Global Business and Management Research Volume: 8-3 Pages: 29-42
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Target firm employee perceptions of procedural and interpersonal justice (2016)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth, R. & Ismail, M., & Sekiguchi, T.
  • Journal Title: Human Systems Management Volume: 35 Issue: 3 Pages: 165-173
  • DOI: 10.3233/hsm-160864
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] M&A Topic: Japan and Australia (2018)
  • Author(s): Ralf Bebenroth
  • Organizer: University of Newcastle
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Communication Goal Structure as Imperative for Target Employees’ Perceived Operative Post-Acquisition Integration Success (2017)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth, R.
  • Organizer: Society and Interdisciplinary Business Research Conference, Malaysia
  • Place of Presentation: Malaysia
  • Year and Date: 2017-02-04
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Communication Goal Structure as Imperative for Operative Integration Success at M&A (2017)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth
  • Organizer: Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Japanese Bidder and German Target: Communication and Success (2017)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth
  • Organizer: Gothenburg University, Sweden
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Communication Matters at M&A (2017)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth
  • Organizer: National Tsing Hua University, Taichu, Taiwan
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Communication Goal Structure as Imperative for Target Employees’ Perceived Operative Post-Acquisition Integration Success (2017)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth
  • Organizer: Society and Interdisciplinary Business Research Conference: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Target Employee’s Perceptions at Post Merger Integration: Interpersonal and Procedural Justice Perceptions leading to Organizational Identification. (2016)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth, R.
  • Organizer: International Symposium on Business and Social Sciences
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2016-12-03
• [Presentation] Japanese M&A. (2016)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth, R.
  • Organizer: Ryukoku University. Invited presentation
  • Place of Presentation: Kyoto, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2016-10-05
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Identification to Oneself and to the Others: Employees’ Perceptions After a Merger (2016)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth, R.
  • Organizer: Academy of International Business
  • Place of Presentation: New Orleans
  • Year and Date: 2016-07-01
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Japanese M&A (in Japanese language) (2016)
  • Author(s): Bebenroth, R.
  • Organizer: Ryoso-Kai, Kobe
  • Place of Presentation: Australia
  • Year and Date: 2016-05-11
  • Invited
• [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] not known (2018)
  • Inventor(s): 2018
  • Industrial Property Rights Holder: 2018
  • Industrial Property Rights Type: 実用新案
  • Filing Date: 2018
  • Acquisition Date: 2018