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is a key factor in mergers and acquisitions. We find that mergers are more likely and merger returns and post-merger …
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This is the Online Appendix to accompany the paper "Human Capital Relatedness and Mergers and Acquisitions". This appendix contains additional results that are referred to but not contained in the paper.Original paper available at: 'https://ssrn.com/abstract=2996878'...
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Mergers and Acquisitions (Merger and Acquisition) seek to achieve synergy through achieving economies of scale and … merger acquisition perspective.A crucial factor for Merger and Acquisition deals is the human component. An acquiring company … the Merger and Acquisition failed. The consequences due to human factor are systematically ignored. All though such people …
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Using a unique data set tracking inventors' careers around mergers and acquisitions (M&As) over the period 19812012, we first show a steep increase postmerger in the frequency of collaboration between acquirer and target inventors, and that such collaboration is associated with more radical,...
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, controlling for this EF, merger size is unrelated to announcement period returns …
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The benefits of internal labor markets are largest when they include industries that utilize similar worker skills, facilitating cross-industry worker reallocation and collaboration. We show that diversifying acquisitions occur more frequently among industry pairs with higher human capital...
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We present evidence that the desire to gain human capital is an important motive for corporate acquisitions. Our tests exploit the staggered recognition of the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine (IDD) by U.S. state courts, which prevents employees with trade secret knowledge from working for other...
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The benefits of internal labor markets are largest when they include industries that utilize similar worker skills, facilitating cross-industry worker reallocation and collaboration. We show that diversifying acquisitions occur more frequently among industry pairs with higher human capital...
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