External Sources of Innovative Capabilities: The Preferences for Strategic Alliances or Mergers and Acquisitions

John Hagedoorn and Geert Duysters ()

Journal of Management Studies, 2002, vol. 39, issue 2, 167-188

Abstract: This paper explores the preferences that companies have as they use alternative (quasi) external sources of innovative competencies such as strategic technology alliances, mergers and acquisitions, or a mix of these. These alternatives are studied in the context of distinct industrial, technological and international settings during the first half of the 1990s. Different strategies followed by companies and the role played by routinized sets of preferences are also taken into consideration. The analysis demonstrates that these options are influenced by both different environmental conditions and firm specific circumstances, such as those related to protecting core businesses.

Date: 2002
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