Diana Kwok, enseignant-chercheur à l’EM Strasbourg, a reçu le « IBR Best Paper Award » lors de la 47ème Conférence annuelle organisé par European International Business Academy (EIBA), qui a eu à Madrid du 10 au 12 décembre 2021.
International Business Review (IBR), revue académique associé à l’EIBA, parraine chaque année le « IBR Best Paper of the Year Award » qui récompense le meilleur article publié dans les volumes de l’année précédente. Depuis 2006, cette distinction est décernée lors de la cérémonie de remise des prix de la conférence annuelle de l'EIBA.
La communication est intitulée “In CEOs we trust: When religion matters in cross-border acquisitions. The case of a multifaith country” et a été écrite en collaboration avec Pierre-Xavier Meschi (IAE Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management, CERGAM, Aix-Marseille Université et SKEMA Business School, Sophia Antipolis) et Olivier Bertrand (Fundação Getulio Vargas – Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (FGV-EBAPE), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
Abstract
This paper examines the emergence of trust by multifaith target-firm personnel in foreign acquirer CEOs during early post-acquisition integration, a decisive period for acquisition success, yet considerably under-researched. Combining self-categorization and similarity-attraction theories, we argue that religious similarity with the foreign acquirer’s CEO represents shared values to the personnel, from which trust in the CEO arises. Further, we scrutinize the moderating effects of the personnel’s religiosity and prior alliance success between the acquirer and target firm. We test our model using field-experimental data from 411 multifaith Malaysian personnel. The findings show that personnel-leader trust occurs more readily with religious similarity than religious dissimilarity, and that the personnel’s religiosity strengthens this relationship. However, a successful prior alliance does not weaken the religious similarity–trust relationship. Our research encourages acquisition managers to consider religion, a factor beyond the traditional acquisition playbook, as a trust antecedent during early post-acquisition integration.
Nous lui adressons nos félicitations pour ce bel accomplissement !