The combination of research and development units following a merger or an acquisition usually requires a broad and …

innovation in pursuing a new customer value proposition in the merger and acquisition processes and thereby exploiting a …

high takeover threat. This study examines the effects of hostile takeover threats on managerial efforts to innovate. Our … results show that more active hostile takeover markets stifle managerial efforts in corporate innovation. The findings suggest … that managers tend to be more myopic when firms are exposed to hostile takeover threats. Managers will put less effort into …

technique based on a matching propensity score procedure, the analysis not only controls for merger endogeneity and ex … significantly positive changes to the firm's post-merger innovation performance. The effects of M&A on innovation performance are in … capabilities at acquiring firms prior to a merger. -- Mergers & Acquisitions ; Innovation Performance ; Telecommunications …

share of sales from product innovations is not significantly affected by a foreign takeover for a given amount of innovation …