unfortunate as both processes - the process of innovation and the process of mergers and acquisitions - are intimately connected …. The impact of mergers on innovation can only be rigorously assessed, if the converse direction of influence - mergers … out links between them. Nevertheless, the focus is on the impact of mergers on innovation. This discussion paper is …

Die Zusammenführung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsbereichen als Folge einer Fusion oder Akquisition erfordert in der …

The combination of research and development units following a merger or an acquisition usually requires a broad and …

, we find that the industry distribution is significantly different for failure and acquisitions. This calls for some kind …

In the context of increasing globalization of markets, merger and acquisition activities in the 1990s are said to be … market power in international markets. This paper empirically investigates a sample of German domestic mergers in the 1990s …. These findings approve the hypothesis that mergers in the 1990s were undertaken to concentrate on core competencies. …

untersucht daher die Determinanten der Arbeitszufriedenheit und deren Auswirkungen auf die Fluktuation im Post Merger …

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) constitute a disruption to the working environment of the inventive labor force of the … paper provides empirical evidence on post-merger mobility and productivity of 673 inventors employed by European acquisition … with the merged entity; 2.) inventors that left the acquired firm are less productive in post-merger years than those that …

the deal value distribution. Based on a comprehensive dataset of 652 European mergers and acquisitions in the period from …Firm acquisitions have been shown to serve as a way to gain access to international markets, technological assets …, products or other valuable resources of the target firm. Given this heterogeneity of takeover motivations and the skewness of …

Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M … counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper provides empirical evidence into the role of acquiring firms' absorptive … capacity for the post-merger patent productivity of the acquired inventors. Based on a sample of 544 inventors employed by …