Disentangling acquisition experience: A multilevel analysis and future research agenda

Svante Schriber and Daniel Degischer

Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2020, vol. 36, issue 2

Abstract: Research interest in firms repeatedly involved in acquisitions has increased over the past decade. However, this increase has remained unmatched by efforts to integrate what is known, leaving the acquisition experience research field scattered, in turn hampering further theoretical and empirical progress. Taking a broad approach to experience, we review 106 empirical studies published in leading journals that focus on the effects of past acquisitions on subsequent ones. We discover three distinct but complementary ways in which research has dealt with experience. Moreover, research on acquisition experience has drawn conclusions on three important but insufficiently integrated levels of analysis. Our review delineates and systematises the current theoretical and empirical progress in acquisition experience research and outlines a future research agenda.

Keywords: Acquisitions; Experience; Probability; Performance; Review; Multi-level-analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2020.101097

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