Technological overlap,technological capabilities,and resource recombination in technological acquisitions |
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| Authors: | Joshua Sears Glenn Hoetker |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Managerial Sciences, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, , Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.;2. Department of Management, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, , Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | The performance of technological acquisitions depends heavily on the overlap between the knowledge bases of the target and acquirer. We argue that overlap is best viewed as two distinct constructs: target overlap, the proportion of the target's knowledge base that the acquirer already possesses, and acquirer overlap, the proportion of the acquirer's knowledge base duplicated by the target. Each affects the value created from the firms' technological capabilities differently due to absorptive capacity, knowledge redundancy, and organizational disruption. Further, the low quantity of innovations observed in acquisitions with low target overlap may conceal an offsetting increase in their novelty. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | acquisitions resource recombination technological overlap innovation capabilities |
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