Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) constitute a disruption to the workingenvironment of the inventive labor force of the acquired company. If inventors wouldrespond with a decline of their patent productivity or departure from the firm thiscan be detrimental to the innovative process within the...

Technological change is often hypothesized as one of the main drivers of mergeractivities. This paper analyzes the role of technology in mergers and acquisitions(M&As) at the firm level. Based on a newly created data set that combines financialinformation and patent data for public limited...

Carve out projects have recently become an emerging issue in practice and theory given the diversityof strategic foci of companies as well as recent merger and acquisition activities of firms. This paperhighlights the relevance of IT in such carve out projects. IT depicts their characteristics...