Technology-grafting acquisitions are the acquisitions of technology-based entrepreneurial firms by established firms. They are often motivated by the need to bring products speedily to market, as well as develop future product pipelines. We argue that these are conflicting objectives; a...

After the Citigroup, the BankAmerica/Nationsbank and the Wells Fargo/ Norwest announcements earlier this year, there is very little that can surprise an observer of the US bank merger arena. Already this year, $813 billion of deals have been announced in the US only, compared with $920 billion...

This study addresses the following questions: (1) can organizations learn how to manage infrequent and heterogeneous tasks ? (2) If they can, then what are the mechanisms that might explain learning under these circumstances ?, and (3) what are the limitations under which these mechanisms...