This study contributes to the growing literature on organizational political ideology by positing that acquiring firms choose targets with similar organizational political ideology in their effort to retain employees post-merger. Using a sample of M&A announcements in the US from 1996-2014, we find a positive relationship between the similarity of political ideologies of the merging organizations and the likelihood of M&A announcement. In addition, we find that our main relationship is stronger the more homogeneous the organizational political ideology of the acquirer, and the more the human capital intensity of the merging firms. In addition, we find support for the proposed mechanism that drives the main relationship. We thus introduce the concept of organizational political ideology into the debate over the influence of organizational values in M&As, and we extend the theoretical application of political ideology to settings with inter-organizational partnerships.

这项研究认为，收购公司选择具有相似组织政治意识形态的目标来努力保留合并后的员工，从而为不断增长的组织政治意识形态的文献做出了贡献。我们使用1996年至2014年间美国并购公告的样本，发现合并组织的政治意识形态的相似性与并购公告的可能性之间存在正相关关系。此外，我们发现，我们的主要关系越强，收购方的组织政治意识形态越齐齐，合并公司的人力资本强度就越强。此外，我们发现了对驱动主要关系的拟议机制的支持。