Section I How do acquisitions relate to other corporate strategy options? 1 Alliances as precursors to an acquisition Elio Shijaku, David R. King, and Ainhoa Urtasun 2 Review of Divestment Research Sina Amiri, David R. King, and Sam DeMarie 3 What follows what? Sequences and combinations of acquisitions and divestitures Oleksandra Kochura, Nicola Mirc, and Denis Lacoste 4 Cross-border acquisition and greenfield investment: Substitutes or complements? Nan Zhang and Joseph Clougherty Section II What helps to predict acquisition performance? 5 Merging dynamic capabilities and acquisition process research: Toward an integrative theoretical framework Svante Schriber 6 Capability transfer: Improved performance from acquiring polluting targets Pankaj Patel and David R. King 7 Cross-border acquisition performance insights from predictive modeling Camilla Jensen, Peter Zamborsky, and David R. King Section III What are persistent acquisition research issues? 8 A reconceptualization: The mis(measurement) of acquisition performance ten years later Olimpia Meglio 9 Improving acquisition research methods: Addressing endogeneity Gonzalo Molina-Sieiro 10 Cultural dynamics in acquisitions Satu Teerikangas and Melanie Hassert