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| Author: | Berggren, C. |
| Title: | Mergers, MNES and Innovation - the Need for New Research Approaches |
| Journal: | Scandinavian Journal of Management
2003 : JUN, VOL. 19:2, p. 173-192 |
| Index terms: | MERGERS MERGERS INNOVATION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article argues that an important reason for disappointing long-term performance is the underestimated difficulties of integrating idiosyncratic technologies in unified product platforms. Instead of focusing on new product development, engineers and designers are drawn into lengthy harmonisation issues. An expanded research agenda is proposed, including the role of special interests in driving merger proposals, the impact of mergers on engineering creativity and innovation, and the identification of industries in which firm trajectories of scale and size, ultimately ending in mergers can be compared with the alternative dynamics of demergers, knowledge-based networks and research- based start-ups. |
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