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[Reading Comprehension]
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| Line | In an effort to explain why business acquisitions |
| often fail, scholars have begun to focus on the role | |
| of top executives of acquired companies. Acquired | |
| companies that retain their top executives tend to | |
| (5) | have more successful outcomes than those that do |
| not. Furthermore, existing research suggests that | |
| retaining the highest-level top executives, such as the | |
| CEO (chief executive officer) and COO (chief operating | |
| officer), is related more positively to postacquisition | |
| (10) | success than retaining lower-ranked top executives. |
| However, this explanation, while insightful, suffers from | |
| two limitations. First, the focus on positional rank does | |
| not recognize the variation in length of service that | |
| may exist in top executive posts across companies, | |
| (15) | nor does it address which particular top executives |
| (with respect to length of service) should be retained | |
| to achieve a successful acquisition outcome. Second, | |
| the relationship between retained top executives and | |
| acquisition outcomes offered by existing research | |
| (20) | is subject to opposing theoretical explanations |
| related to length of service. The resource-based view | |
| (RBV) suggests that keeping acquired company top | |
| executives with longer organizational tenure would lead | |
| to more successful outcomes, as those executives | |
| (25) | have idiosyncratic and nontransferable knowledge |
| of the acquired company that would be valuable for | |
| the effective implementation of the acquisition. The | |
| opposing position, offered by the upper echelons | |
| perspective (UEP), suggests that retaining top | |
| (30) | executives having short organizational tenure would |
| lead to more successful outcomes, as they would have | |
| the adaptability to manage most effectively during the | |
| uncertainty of the acquisition process. | |
| Responding to these limitations, Bergh conducted | |
| (35) | a study of executive retention and acquisition |
| outcome that focused on the organizational tenure of | |
| retained company top executives in 104 acquisitions, | |
| followed over 5 years. Bergh considered the | |
| acquisition successful if the acquired company was | |
| (40) | retained and unsuccessful if it was divested. Bergh’s |
| findings support the RBV position. Apparently, the | |
| benefits of long organizational tenure lead to more | |
| successful outcomes than the benefits of short | |
| organizational tenure. While longer tenured top | |
| (45) | executives may have trouble adapting to change, it |
| appears that their perspectives and knowledge bases | |
| offer unique value after the acquisition. Although | |
| from the UEP position it seems sensible to retain | |
| less tenured executives and allow more tenured | |
| (50) | ones to leave, such a strategy appears to lower the |
| probability of acquisition success. |
题目：
According to the passage, prior to Bergh’s study, research on the role of top executives of acquired companies in business acquisition success was limited in which of the following ways?
选项:
A、It did not address how the organizational tenure of top executives affects postacquisition success.
B、It did not address why some companies have longer-tenured CEOs than others.
C、It did not consider strategies for retaining long-tenured top executives of acquired companies.
D、It failed to differentiate between the contribution of highest-level top executives to postacquisition success and that of lower-ranked top executives.
E、It underestimated the potential contribution that lower-level top executives can make to postacquisition success.
答案:
A
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我选了d 不太理解为什么选a
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我选了d 不太理解为什么选a
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不太懂为什么要选a，包括定位也不是很清晰
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怎么看着题干对应找到原文的信息？谢谢
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