Merger and acquisition (M&A) have become a foremost strategic alliance for business, product and geographic tactics in global market. Using meta-literature review, we conduct a synthesis analysis on M&A to assess motives, methods, financing sources, announcement effects, cross-border competitions, success-failure, valuation issues, and business strategies. We review 155 recent and relevant papers preferably published during 2015–2020 in 58 leading business journals of ISI-WOS through bibliometric study coupled with content analysis. We show influential aspects of journals, authors, articles, topics, thematic areas, findings, contributions, research gaps, suggestions, and current landscape of M&A. We recommend that firms having constraints might consolidate energies by resorting to productive M&A. Finally, we identify future research questions to extend the research avenues. Overall, this academic novelty significantly contributes to enhancing our knowledge in dynamic managerial capabilities, outlines further study agenda, and eventually provides business strategy & investment implications in global context.

并购 (M&A) 已成为全球市场业务、产品和地域策略的首要战略联盟。使用元文献评论，我们对并购进行综合分析，评估并购的动机、方式、融资来源、公告效果、跨境竞争、成败、估值问题和商业策略。我们通过文献计量研究和内容分析，回顾了 2015 年至 2020 年期间在 ISI-WOS 的 58 种领先商业期刊上发表的 155 篇近期和相关论文。我们展示了期刊、作者、文章、主题、主题领域、发现、贡献、研究差距、建议和并购的当前格局的影响方面。我们建议有限制的公司可以通过采取生产性并购来整合能量。最后，我们确定未来的研究问题以扩展研究途径。总体而言，这种学术新颖性极大地促进了我们对动态管理能力的了解，