Mergers & Acquisitions

As a practitioner Duncan has been involved in numerous international Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances ranging from £50m to £15bn in size, originally as financial advisor but then as strategy and implementation consultant. He has given key note speeches at a several practitioner conferences and presented at a large number of leading academic conferences. He has written several reports for companies and consultancies on M&A and also researched European wide M&A activity in the food sector with a €10m EU grant. His distinctive approach is truly multi-disciplinary leading to more robust M&A outcomes than a single disciplinary focus.

Duncan has written over 50 peer reviewed journal articles and published 2 books on M&A: Implementing Successful Post-Acquisition Integration (2000), which takes a practitioner oriented approach outlining tools and frameworks for successful acquisition integration, and Mergers and Acquisitions (2007) which offers an academic multi-disciplinary treatment of M&A in order to show how awareness of all disciplines is necessary in order to fully understand success and failure in the transaction and subsequent integration of mergers. He also writes on M&A for a number of media sources including THE, The Conversation and has been cited widely in leading journals and a range of media outlets.

Duncan’s current research interests in M&A focus upon the role of practitioners in M&A institutional fields throughout the transaction and integration process and in different international contexts. He writes on M&A international communications practices and their impact upon the financial markets, the performance outcomes of different management motivations, how acquisitions are integrated for differential strategic outcomes, the roles of different stakeholders, the effects of emotions on stakeholders and the micro routines that explain overall M&A performance outcomes. Recently he has edited two special issues of leading journals to expand the boundaries of M&A research.

In order to convey the complexities of managing M&A and to highlight the relevance of my research into key process challenges Duncan has written a number of case studies on M&A and designed a simulation of an international acquisition that he runs as a highly successful three-day workshop. See Angwin, DN (2018) The acquisition of Delft Belting B.V.: An international acquisition simulation, Amazon.com, ISBN 9781980789857