期刊
STRATEGY SCIENCE
卷 6, 期 2, 页码 141-165出版社
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/stsc.2021.0123
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rice theory; subnational culture; holistic thinking; experiential learning; post-acquisition performance
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The study shows that both cultural similarity and dissimilarity impact target performance improvement, indicating that acquiring targets from a rice culture area can lead to better performance for companies from a wheat culture region. Additionally, the experience of acquirers with rice targets is less beneficial compared to their experience with wheat targets.
Drawing on the novel-to-the-field rice theory, we study how subnational cultural heterogeneity impacts target performance improvement following an acquisition. Data from domestic acquisitions in the Chinese beer industry show performance is significantly impacted by cultural characteristics formulated through agricultural subsistence activities. We find that both cultural similarity and dissimilarity influence performance: (1) in transactions in which both the acquirer and target are located in rice culture regions, targets achieve greater performance improvement than in those in which both firms are located in a wheat culture region, and (2) targets located in wheat culture areas bought by acquirers from a rice culture area gain greater performance improvement than rice culture targets acquired by firms from a wheat culture area. We also find that acquirers' experience with rice targets is less beneficial than their experience with wheat targets.
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