A knowledge-based view of international acquisition performance.

The purpose of this research was to examine the role of cross-border knowledge transfer in international acquisition performance. Building upon the large body of acquisition implementation research, and recent developments on the knowledge-based view of the firm, this study developed a general model of antecedents, and performance consequences of knowledge transfer in international acquisitions. The theoretical model was examined using primary questionnaire data from 121 executives from U.S. multinationals that acquired foreign firms between 1998 and 2000, supplemented with secondary data from various archival sources. Several structural equation models were analyzed using LISREL 8.3 to test the theoretical model.