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Collaboration post-acquisition: The role of acquirers' motives
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What role do collaborations with a target's partners play in an acquisition, and how do these collaborations evolve post-acquisition? Research suggests that these collaborations are an important reason to acquire but often diminish post-acquisition. But if they tend to diminish, why are they a reason to acquire? Our analysis of acquirers’ motives of 143 acquisitions of firms that collaborate with partners on 298 open-source projects resolves the outlined puzzle and reveals two types of acquisition motives: protection-motivated acquisitions—where acquirers focus on protecting the complementarity with the technology and the partners, and extraction-motivated acquisitions—where acquirers focus on extracting technology and employees. We find that protection-motivated acquisitions are associated with an intensification of collaborations, meanwhile extraction-motivated acquisitions are associated with a diminishment of the collaboration. We contribute to research on acquisitions, collaboration, and OSS.
Keywords:
acqui-hires
acquisition motives
acquisitions
community
killer acquisitions
open-source software (OSS)
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