While previous studies on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) mostly relied on large firms, our study is based on a sample … firm characteristics that determine the innovation and economic performance of M&A. The performance measures are based on … market characteristics such as demand development or competition conditions. Rather astonishingly, it is also not affected by …

This paper investigates the post-merger performance effects of mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Our study is based on a … measures of economic performance but also on innovation performance. For the empirical analysis we use a matching framework …

. However, an additional effect of competition can only be detected for more radical innovation success. … 'relevant' firms. Our empirical results indeed show that the measure performs better than the standard measure in an innovation … and significant impact on innovation success. However, the knowledge spillovers appear to be localized: Spillovers from …

universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of …, are technologically more diverse, and they are less exposed to intensive price competition compared to exploitation …-oriented firms. We further found a positive effect on innovation performance for exploration-oriented firms but not for those that …

impact of outsourcing on firms' innovation performance as well as labour productivity. The integral investigation of the … determining factors as well as the impact of outsourcing on innovation and productivity based on the same data in a comparative … Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services. -- outsourcing ; product innovation ; process innovation ; average labour …

universities and tested them on Swiss firm data. In a second step, we investigated the impact on innovation performance of …, are technologically more diverse, and they are less exposed to intensive price competition compared to exploitation …-oriented firms. We further found a positive effect on innovation performance for exploration-oriented firms but not for those that …

distinguish clearly between adoption and use of energy-related technologies (process innovation in the broad sense) and product … innovation in energy-related fields. We take into consideration four energy-related policy instruments (and expected demand for … adoption or innovation by interacting adoption and innovation variables with policy instrument dummies. We test our hypotheses …