EMANUEL GOMES is the Principal Lecturer in Corporate Strategy at Coventry Business School, University of Coventry, UK. He specialises in strategic management, international strategic management, managing partnerships and managing strategic alliances and mergers and acquisitions.  YAAKOV WEBER is the Chair of the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department and also acts as President at the EuroMed Research Business Institute. He lectures in various unversities across the United States, Europe and China in graduate schools of business administration and exectutive programmes. CHRIS BROWN is the owner and Managing Director of Acquisition Solutions Ltd. He advises companies on mergers… and acquisitions, strategic growth and business turn-arounds.  SHLOMO YEDIDIA TARBA is a lecturer in Organizational Behavior in School of Business Administration of the Law and Business Academic Center, Ramat Gan, and Global Strategic Alliances and Mergers and Acquisitions at Department of Economics and Management of The Open University, Raanana, Israel. His research interests relate to corporate strategy, strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, and human resource management. He has published in International Studies of Management & Organizations, Human Resource Management Review, Advances In Mergers & Acquisitions.