The Impact of Acquisitions on Innovation: Poison Pill, Placebo, or Tonic?

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M&A and innovation: The role of integration and cultural differences—A central European targets perspective (2016, background): “Patents provide a measure for technical knowledge (Prabhu et al., 2005) and are linked directly to inventiveness (Ahuja & Katila, 2001).”
Do High Technology Acquirers Become More Innovative (2010, background): “, 1984); to a smaller potential for synergies through resource redeployment across different knowledge areas and cross-fertilization of ideas; or to a smaller potential for “pleasant accidents” in the R&D process (Cohen and Levinthal, 1989; Kapoor and Lim, 2005; Prabhu et al., 2005).”
Structural Differentiation and Ambidexterity: The Mediating Role of Integration Mechanisms (2008, neutral): “Knowledge sources underlying current products and services in units may be underexplored due to a lack of capabilities or complementary knowledge in exploratory units (Prabhu et al. 2005).”
The effects of customer acquisition and retention orientations on a firm’s radical and incremental innovation performance (2011, neutral): “Specifically, consistent with Prabhu et al. (2005), we evaluate two dimensions of customer knowledge: depth and diversity.”