The Effect of Mergers and Acquisitions on the Technological Performance of Companies in a High-tech Environment

By John Hagedoorn, Geert Duysters. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 2002

307 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Ning Wang
2. John Hagedoorn
3. Myriam Cloodt
4. Geert Duysters
5. H. van Kranenburg
6. A. Hughes
7. Panos Desyllas
8. A. P. Man

In Strategy and Management

1. Geert Duysters
2. Michael A. Hitt
3. John Hagedoorn
4. H. van Kranenburg
5. Ning Wang
6. Myriam Cloodt
7. Peter J. Lane
8. A. P. Man

Citations in the corpus

• Innovation in services – how different from manufacturing? (2008, background): “Literature reviews confirm the relevance of cooperation to propensity to innovate (see, for example, Hagerdoorn & Duysters, 2002 ; Narula, 2003 ; Powell & Grodal, 2005 ).”
• Is speed of integration really a success factor of mergers and acquisitions? An analysis of the role of internal and external relatedness (2006, background): “While a study by Hagedorn and Duysters (2002) finds beneficial effects of the merging firms’ similarity with respect to product technologies, other authors (Barney, 1986; Salter and Weinhold, 1978; Harrison et al., 1991) provide theoretical arguments that, in the case of a low level of relatedness…”
• Do High Technology Acquirers Become More Innovative (2010, background): “…the blame for disappointing acquisition outcomes on organizational, market and technological dissimilarities between the acquiring and acquired firms (Ahuja and Katila, 2001; Cassiman et al., 2005; Chakrabarti et al., 1994; Cloodt et al., 2006; Hagedoorn and Duysters, 2002; Prabhu et al., 2005).”
• Collaboration and innovation: a review of the effects of mergers, acquisitions and alliances on innovation (2005, background): “Although the role of innovation as a motive for mergers and acquisitions has been largely neglected in the older literature (Link, 1988; de Jong, 1976) more recent work has addressed the growing importance of this motive for companies engaged in M&As (Chakrabarti et al., 1994; Grandstrand et al., 19”
• Complementary technologies, knowledge relatedness, and invention outcomes in high technology mergers and acquisitions (2009, background): “Research on high-technology M&As has identified the relatedness of the buyer’s and the target’s technological knowledge as an important predictor of post-merger innovation performance (Cloodt, Hagedoorn, and Van Kranenburg, 2006; Cassiman et al., 2005; Hagedoorn and Duysters, 2002).”
• Measuring innovative performance: is there an advantage in using multiple indicators? (2003, background): “In their analysis of the international computer industry, Hagedoorn and Duysters (2002) mention a correlation of over 0.5 between the R&D intensity of companies and their patent counts.”
• Is there complementarity or substitutability between internal and external R&D strategies? (2012, background): “A large number of recent studies examine the impact of firm R&D investments on innovation as well (e.g., Griffith et al., 2004; Hagedoorn and Duysters, 2002; Lokshin et al., 2008; Love and Roper, 2002; Rothaermel and Hess, 2007) and find diseconomies of scale in R&D in most cases.”
• Mergers and acquisitions : their effect on the innovative performance of companies in high-tech industries (2006, background): “This finding is consistent with previous research that demonstrates an inverse U-shaped relationship between RD Scherer, 1984).”