-exploitation continuum and profitability, survival and acquisition likelihood simultaneously, and investigate potential trade-offs between … exploration for the acquisition likelihood and survival likelihood of high-tech start-ups, and for the profitability of low and … medium tech start-ups, but the relationship is linearly negative for the profitability of high-tech start-ups and the …

This research compares the profitability of two innovation-related divestitures: spinoffs versus buyouts. Innovation … the profitability of spinoffs’ and buyouts’ in the short and medium term using longitudinal data on 126 spinoffs and 102 … marketing, is the central, causal mechanism that explains the profitability of spinoffs’ and buyouts’ over time. Third …

purchase obligations, predicts that future profitability will fall and thus that its shares are overvalued in the current stock … necessarily take advantage of overvalued stock. Such acquisitions are followed by increases in profitability and generate positive … profitability when their private information predicts diminishing profitability rather than to take advantage of overvaluation and …

This study examines the profitability of acquiring firms in the pre- and post-merger periods. The sample consists of … 153 listed merged companies. Five alternative measures of profitability were employed to study the impact of mergers on … the profitability of acquiring firms. The results reveal that profitability declined in 55% of companies, and only 29% of …

In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger to the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement and find … profit in the two firms controlled by the cross-majority shareholder then increases, such that both the cross …