Utvärdering av informationssystem vid företagsförvärv: Synergiers påverkan på informationssystems integrationsroll

Sammanfattning: The numbers of mergers and acquisitions have increased significantly in the last period of time. Although this popularity for mergers and acquisitions, most of the mergers and acquisitions fail to create value. One explanation to this failure of value creation is, according to several studies, how companies treat integration of information systems in the pre-merger evaluation. The research within the field argues that information system integration should have a proactive role in mergers and acquisitions, meaning that information system integration should support the organizational change and normally be considered in the premerger evaluation. The aim of this thesis is to study issues that affect whether companies choose to consider information system integration proactively, when involved in mergers and acquisitions. The main conclusion is that the synergies from the acquisition indirectly affect if companies consider information system integration proactively.