, acquisitions and internal R&D investments. The findings indicate that a firm's absorptive capacity affects the presence of … effects between alliances and acquisitions and between alliances and internal R&D investments. Firms with high absorptive … capacity also exhibit complementarities between acquisitions and additional R&D investments. These results were obtained from …

In recent years Chinese foreign acquisitions have increased significantly. In Europe and the United States, these … the acquisitions lead to undesirable technology transfer, or that they may have negative consequences for the employees of … the target firm. We use a large deal‐level dataset on cross‐border acquisitions to investigate whether Chinese foreign …

and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Working in a monopolistically competitive environment, merging firms do not reduce …