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The deal governance audit

A four-question audit for supervisory boards and deal teams before signing: testing whether the deal sits in the value-creating or value-destroying half of the distribution.

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Figure 2The deal governance audit

A worksheet with four rows for M&A governance under an empirical 50/50 baseline: comparing folklore assumptions with empirical reality across valuation, customer retention, integration depth, and price discipline.Risk DimensionValuation, interface,integration speed,retention.The 80% Myth AssumptionWhat consulting folkloreassumes.The 50% Empirical RealityWhat academic evidencedemonstrates.The Monday DecisionConcrete governanceaction for the dealteam.Four rows corresponding to the four primary operational fracture points. Under a 50/50 baseline, these fourchoices decide which half of the distribution the transaction enters.

Source: Author's framework synthesizing empirical integration literature: Craninckx & Huyghebaert (2011), Homburg & Bucerius (2005), Shi et al. (2017), and Schmitz et al. (2020).

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Isoglu, S. (2026). The deal governance audit [Figure]. isoglu.com. https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-the-european-number-nobody-quotes-fig03/

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@misc{isoglu-2026-the-european-number-nobody-quotes-fig03,
  author = {Isoglu, Sinan},
  title = {{The deal governance audit}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Figure 2, isoglu.com},
  url = {https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-the-european-number-nobody-quotes-fig03/},
  note = {From the essay {The European failure number nobody quotes}}
}
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