The article "How IT carve-out project complexity influences divestor performance in M&As" by Philip W Yettona, Stefan Henningsson, Markus Böhm, Jan Marco Leimeister and Helmut Krcmar has been published in the European Journal of Information Systems on 14.07.2022. The team of authors had already been working on the article since 2014 and is now pleased about the publication. 

The paper presents a model that can be applied to IT transactions between seller and acquirer once a business unit in a multi-business organization (MBO) is spun off and integrated into another multi-business organization. The model explains how the divestor's business and IT alignment pre-conditions contribute to increased complexity in the IT carve-out project.

The full article is available online.