Bringing It All Back Home: Corporate Venturing and Renewal Through Spin-ins

Richard Hunt (), David M. Townsend, Elham Asgari and Daniel A. Lerner

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2019, vol. 43, issue 6, 1166-1193

Abstract: More often than not, corporate acquisitions are expensive and difficult, especially those transacted for the purpose of advancing the aims of corporate entrepreneurship (CE). Motivated by frequent, high-cost failures, firms are experimenting with novel organizational structures and fresh approaches to acquisition-driven CE. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of corporate spin-ins—acquisitions in which the acquired company is founded by former employees of the acquiring firm—in resolving key challenges of CE-motivated acquisitions Using a matched pairwise dataset of spin-in and non-spin-in acquisitions, we discover that spin-ins generate superior outcomes, positioning them as a high-potential facet of CE portfolios.

Keywords: corporate entrepreneurship; corporate venturing; spin-ins; acquisitions; M&A (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/1042258718778547

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