Abstract
The article discusses research on eight mechanisms which are related to capability transformation and resource recombination in organizations after an acquisition or merger. The interplay of these mechanisms, which are grouped into the categories of knowledge-leveraging and interest-alignment mechanisms in this study, can give companies a competitive advantage. The knowledge-leveraging group consists of resource redeployment, codification, replication, and joint-process redesign. In the interest-alignment group are clear corporate leadership, joint strategic reflection, use of an external party to legitimate change, and boundary-spanning managers. Research on the reconfiguration mechanisms of capability substitution, capability evolution, and capability transformation is mentioned.
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