Predicting Explicit and Valuing Tacit Synergies of High-Tech Based Transactions: Amazon.com’s Acquisition of Dubai-Based Souq.com

Andrejs Čirjevskis ()
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Andrejs Čirjevskis: Business Department, RISEBA University of Applied Sciences, Meža Street 3, LV-1048 Riga, Latvia

JRFM, 2023, vol. 16, issue 2, 1-11

Abstract: Although the interdependence between the core competencies of the collaborating partners and synergy as an important consideration when companies decide to go for a merger is theoretically understood and evident, further empirical research is needed to integrate two concepts into a coherent empirical construct. The paper aims to develop an empirical framework useful for scholars and practitioners to incorporate real options theory into resource-based views (RBV) to measure collaborative synergies of M&As. Having done the empirical research on the case study of the Souq.com acquisition by Amazon.com as one of “the biggest-ever technology M&A transactions in the Arabic world”, the paper provides a conceptual construct of research that encompasses not only Amazon.com and Souq.com but can be useful to other companies pursuing strategic growth by M&As.

Keywords: real options; resource-based view; acquisition; core competence; synergy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C E F2 F3 G (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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