Library science

Marketing

Process (computing)

Psychoanalysis

International business

Operating system

Economics

Computer science

Mergers and acquisitions

Business

Regional science

Attractiveness

Psychology

Emerging markets

Management

Political science

Sociology

Data science

Artificial intelligence

Industrial organization

Multinational corporation

Finance

Perspective (graphical)

Publishing

Journal of World Business

Based on empirical evidence of four Chinese firms’ outward mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to European countries, this paper examines previously neglected key success factors in post-acquisition reverse capability transfer. We identified three such factors: home-country advantage, motivation-oriented complementary resources, and acquirers’ attractiveness, and argue that post-acquisition capability transfer is affected by not only the process factors that occur during the post-acquisition phase but also by pre-acquisition status factors. In this way, the paper enriches the process perspective of M&A, thereby contributing to the international M&A literature and to studies of multinational corporations (MNCs) from emerging economies.

From the Editors: Publishing in the Journal of World Business