Its scholars have investigated the nature of the redeployed resources in PMI, the direction of the redeployment (to or from the target), frictions in redeployment, and the co-occurrence of resource divestiture.
PMI choices that define which resources will be the target of the PMI process and which structure will be the most conducive to combine the merging firms' resources are also influenced by the firms' past and current M&A activities.
Capron et al. (1998) investigated the redeployment of resources in the PMI process, i.e., the modified use of resources after an acquisition, and assessed the extent to which the targets' resources were applied in the acquirers' businesses and vice versa.
A real win-win potential exists if we work smarter with PEPFAR (and PMI, TB, GPEI, and other) resources.
In this primer, we take a step towards integrating the fragmented research on PMI by bridging research on resource reconfiguration and organization design.
While aggregated PMI across all received CSI-RS resources may offer better feedback compression/ performance compared to per CSI-RS resource feedback, it has several drawbacks.
The simplest form of the PMI feedback is per CSI-RS resource feedback.
As a contribution to the existing but fragmented research on this topic, it seems particularly promising to investigate complementarities between organization design and resource reconfiguration perspectives on PMI.
Scholars assessing what to integrate and reconfigure and scholars assessing how to do that through making organization design choices base their studies on three common assumptions: (1) resource heterogeneity, (2) deliberate PMI choices, and (3) value maximizing but boundedly rational managers.
Reconfiguration scholars view PMI as crucial for firms to reconfigure resources, product lines, and business units to adjust to the internal and external environment thus focusing on the locus (what) of PMI.
In the PMI process, merging firms are reconfigured when their resources are added to, redeployed within, or divested from the new entity formed by acquirer and target firm.
