Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Hagedoorn,John
Author-Name: Duysters,Geert
Author-workplace-name: MERIT 
Title: The Effect of Mergers and Acquisitions on the Technological Performance of Companies in a High-tech Environment
Abstract: A large part of the literature from industrial organisation and management expects that, compared with unrelated M&As, related M&As show superior economic performance because of synergetic effects that follow from economies of scale and scope. The current contribution takes the debate on the effect of different M&As somewhat further by studying the effect of M&As on the technological performance of companies. In this study the technological performance of M&As is related to a high-tech sector, i.e. the computer industry. The main result of this research is that the so called strategic and organisational fit between companies involved in M&As seem to play an important role in improving the technological performance of companies.
Keywords: management and organization theory ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2000
Number: 010
File-URL: http://edocs.ub.unimaas.nl/loader/file.asp?id=182
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 96010
Handle: RePEc:unm:umamer:2000010