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How Do Firms Learn to Make Acquisitions? A Review of Past Research and an Agenda for the Future
Abstract
How do firms learn to successfully acquire other firms? The authors first review early work, mostly from the 1980s to the mid-1990s, testing the learning curve perspective on acquisitions and exploring some contingencies. They then discuss three more recent streams of research on negative experience transfer, deliberate learning mechanisms, and learning from others, which provide deeper insight into the contingencies and mechanisms of organizational learning in strategic settings such as acquisitions. The article concludes with an agenda for future research.
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- Barkema, H. G., & Schijven, M.
- Venue
- Journal of Management
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2008-03-07
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 594-634
- ISSN
- 0149-2063 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-1211
- OpenAlex
- W2140762799
- Cited by
- 473
- References
- 106
- FWCI
- 52.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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