Research on acquisition integration has focused on how acquirers integrate the products or services of targets into the acquiring firms. Acqui-hires are different from traditional technology acquisitions because they primarily target the talent that resides in the human capital of the acquired...

Front Cover -- Resource Redeployment and Corporate Strategy -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Examining Resource Redeployment in Multi-Business Firms -- Introduction -- Multi-Business Firms Are Alive and Well -- Corporate Flexibility through Resource Redeployment --...

This paper empirically examines how business unit reorganization affects innovation, and explores how the learning process may mediate this relationship. Unit reorganization is the creation, deletion, or recombination of business units within a firm. Innovation is radical and involves product...

Examining resource redeployment in multi-business firms -- Resource redeployment in business ecosystems -- Product turnover: simultaneous product market entry and exit -- Resource redeployment through exit and entry: threats of substitution as inducements -- Incumbent responses to an entrant...