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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 197-220Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/smj.157
Keywords
innovation; acquisitions; knowledge
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This paper examines the impact of acquisitions on the subsequent innovation performance of acquiring firms in the chemicals industry. We distinguish between technological acquisitions, acquisitions in which technology is a component of the acquired firm's assets, and nontechnological acquisitions: acquisitions that do not involve a technological component. We develop a framework relating acquisitions to firm innovation performance and develop a set of measures for quantifying the technological inputs a firm obtains through acquisitions. We find that within technological acquisitions absolute size of the acquired knowledge base enhances innovation performance, while relative size of the acquired knowledge base reduces innovation output. The relatedness of acquired and acquiring knowledge bases has a nonlinear impart on innovation output. Nontechnological acquisitions do nor have a significant effect on subsequent innovation output. Copyright (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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