Knowledge-acquisitions and post-acquisition innovation performance: A comparative hazards model
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Department
Computer Information Systems
Abstract
Do acquisitions lead to instrumental innovations related to the acquired knowledge? Past arguments on vertical integration espouse how a quest for knowledge drives acquisitions culminating in innovation performance. Using Google and Yahoo as cases-in-point, we examine how facets of acquired innovation knowledge impact post-innovation performance. In particular, the apparently opposing fortunes of Google and Yahoo allow us to investigate the pace of their innovation performance as a hazards model. Results from our investigation highlight Google's ambidexterity over Yahoo with a swifter, systematic pace of innovation performance - from hastening time to patenting new ideas to the time to releasing new applications from acquisitions.
Citation
Datta, P., & Roumani, Y. (2015). Knowledge-acquisitions and post-acquisition innovation performance: A comparative hazards model. European Journal of Information Systems, 24 (2), 202–226. doi:10.1057/ejis.2014.32