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On the Importance of Technology for Firm Acquisitions: SMEs versus Large Acquisition Targets
Hussinger, Katrin
2010In Technovation
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Keywords :
M&A; Technological proximity; SMEs
Abstract :
[en] This paper empirically investigates a sample of German domestic merger and acquisitions (M&As) in the 1990s to analyze the importance of a related technology portfolio in the decision to acquire a particular firm. The novelty of this analysis lies in the fact that the sample does not contain exclusively large firms, but also a large share of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The empirical results suggest that firms engage in M&As to strengthen their technological competencies. A related technology portfolio is, in particular, important for the decision to acquire SMEs. This suggests an information advantage of acquirers with related technologies.
Disciplines :
Strategy & innovation
Author, co-author :
Hussinger, Katrin ;  Maastricht University
Language :
English
Title :
On the Importance of Technology for Firm Acquisitions: SMEs versus Large Acquisition Targets
Publication date :
2010
Journal title :
Technovation
ISSN :
0166-4972
Publisher :
Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science, Oxford, United Kingdom
Peer reviewed :
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