Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have been a popular strategy for firms to increase their competitive advantage. Existing research has revealed a wide range of implications for the workforce and human resource management (HRM) stemming from M&As. However, insufficient attention has been paid to issues related to employee resilience. We argue that employee resilience, a concept that is still to gain widespread attention in HRM research, is crucial to organizations wishing to manage their M&As successfully, especially in the post-M&A integration. We develop a set of complementary propositions, present a research framework, and indicate directions for future studies.

并购 (M&A) 一直是企业增加竞争优势的流行策略。现有研究揭示了并购对劳动力和人力资源管理 (HRM) 的广泛影响。然而，与员工适应能力相关的问题没有得到足够的重视。我们认为，员工弹性这一概念在 HRM 研究中仍受到广泛关注，对于希望成功管理并购的组织至关重要，尤其是在并购后的整合中。我们制定了一套互补的命题，提出了一个研究框架，并指明了未来研究的方向。