From light touch to top management control: HSBC’s integration of its first two acquired subsidiaries 1960-1980 (2021)
Journal Article
Lu, Q., Toms, S., & Wei, Y. (2023). From light touch to top management control: HSBC’s integration of its first two acquired subsidiaries 1960-1980. Business history, 65(4), 656-678. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2021.1883000

This research contributes to British multinational banking history, post-acquisition integration and legitimacy research, by exploring HSBC’s top management control integration with its first two acquired British banks, during the period 1960–1980, f... Read More about From light touch to top management control: HSBC’s integration of its first two acquired subsidiaries 1960-1980.

Bounded Reliability and the termination of international joint ventures–insights from the Mid-Med Bank, 1975–1979 (2019)
Journal Article
Lu, Q. (2021). Bounded Reliability and the termination of international joint ventures–insights from the Mid-Med Bank, 1975–1979. Business history, 63(2), 205-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1552679

In the late twentieth century, the international joint venture (IJV) became an increasingly important yet unstable organisational form of international business. Based on insights provided by the Mid-Med Bank of Malta during the period 1975-1979, thi... Read More about Bounded Reliability and the termination of international joint ventures–insights from the Mid-Med Bank, 1975–1979.

Is the speed of post-acquisition integration manageable? Case study: post-acquisition integration of HSBC with the Mercantile Bank, 1959–84 (2014)
Journal Article
Lu, Q. (2014). Is the speed of post-acquisition integration manageable? Case study: post-acquisition integration of HSBC with the Mercantile Bank, 1959–84. Business history, 56(8), 1262-1280. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2013.876533

This study aims to fill in the gaps in existing business history research regarding post-acquisition integration by adopting a case study of the post-acquisition integration process between HSBC and Mercantile Bank (MB) 1959–84. It explores the impac... Read More about Is the speed of post-acquisition integration manageable? Case study: post-acquisition integration of HSBC with the Mercantile Bank, 1959–84.