Stemming the tide: Does climate risk affect M&A performance?

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Lodh, S., Deshmukh, N. and Rohani, A. 2024. Stemming the tide: Does climate risk affect M&A performance? Business Strategy and the Environment. 33 (2), pp. 858-881. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3518
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TitleStemming the tide: Does climate risk affect M&A performance?
AuthorsLodh, S., Deshmukh, N. and Rohani, A.
Abstract

We examine the effect of climate change risks (CCR) on firms' decision of engaging in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and M&A performance. In this study we use the responses by firms on ‘climate change-related risks and opportunities’ of the CDP survey and 1,372 deals of listed US firms during 2010-2020. Consistent with risk vulnerability theory, our evidence indicates that firms with higher CCR have a lower probability of engaging in M&As. After controlling for possible endogeneity, our results also indicate that if acquirers with higher climate change risks choose to engage in M&A, it significantly reduces the announcement returns. These findings suggest that extant measures of climate change risks should be rethought when evaluating M&A efficiency. More broadly, our paper provides causal evidence that managers need to integrate CCR into their formal risk management systems to avoid unsuccessful M&As.

Keywordsbackground risk; CDP; climate change risks; mergers and acquisitions; risk vulnerability theory
Sustainable Development Goals13 Climate action
Middlesex University ThemeSustainability
PublisherWiley
JournalBusiness Strategy and the Environment
ISSN0964-4733
Electronic1099-0836
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Online02 Aug 2023
Print05 Feb 2024
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Submitted13 Oct 2022
Accepted12 Jul 2023
Deposited07 Sep 2023
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© 2023 The Authors. Business Strategy and The Environment published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3518
Web of Science identifierWOS:001041375200001
LanguageEnglish
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