Big data promises a significant change in the nature of information processing, and hence, decision making. The general reaction to this trend is that the access and availability of large amounts of data will improve the quality of individual and organizational decisions. However, there are also concerns that our expectations may not be entirely correct. Rather than simplifying decisions, big data may actually increase the difficulty of making effective choices. We synthesize the current state of research and explain how the fundamental implications of big data offer both a promise for improvement but also a challenge to our capacity for decision making.
{"title":"Big Data and Organizational Decision Making","authors":"M. Mithani","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2617452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2617452","url":null,"abstract":"Big data promises a significant change in the nature of information processing, and hence, decision making. The general reaction to this trend is that the access and availability of large amounts of data will improve the quality of individual and organizational decisions. However, there are also concerns that our expectations may not be entirely correct. Rather than simplifying decisions, big data may actually increase the difficulty of making effective choices. We synthesize the current state of research and explain how the fundamental implications of big data offer both a promise for improvement but also a challenge to our capacity for decision making.","PeriodicalId":414091,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Management Science eJournal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128993350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pablo Gonzalo-Lázaro, Ruth Mateos de Cabo, Juan Carlos García-Villalobos
The aim of this paper is to study the adoption of logistic information systems (LIS) in the automotive supplier industry of Spain and their implications on firm performance. We conducted a survey on more than 200 companies. Using a structural equation model, estimated by the Partial Least Squares (PLS) technique, we find out that the adoption of LIS produces a direct but weak positive outcome on firm performance and a significant impact over logistic performance and flexibility.
{"title":"Logistics Information System Adoption and Firm Performance in the Suppliers Automotive Industry in Spain","authors":"Pablo Gonzalo-Lázaro, Ruth Mateos de Cabo, Juan Carlos García-Villalobos","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2626400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2626400","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to study the adoption of logistic information systems (LIS) in the automotive supplier industry of Spain and their implications on firm performance. We conducted a survey on more than 200 companies. Using a structural equation model, estimated by the Partial Least Squares (PLS) technique, we find out that the adoption of LIS produces a direct but weak positive outcome on firm performance and a significant impact over logistic performance and flexibility.","PeriodicalId":414091,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Management Science eJournal","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114853248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Strategic entrepreneurship has been widely acknowledged as the appropriate context representing the way of creating value in business organization. However, yet we do not fully understand the process of strategic entrepreneurship or elements of it that give rise to them and as such strategic entrepreneurship remains in need of further explanation. This study primary believes that any concept or business model is required to address the dynamic changes in the markets. Thus, this study explains the dynamic capability concept and its role in perpetuating entrepreneurial and strategic actions in the SMEs. The dynamic view of resource based theory is adopted from firm level framework used to identify the unique bundle of dynamic capabilities that promote firm’s entrepreneurial and strategic actions. The identified framework was validated from the empirical data gathered through the explorative questionnaire survey of 488 manufacturing SMEs in Sri Lanka. The finding suggests that SMEs are better able to address market challenges when they have strong dynamic abilities that engaged them in strategic entrepreneurship. The study thus encourages SMEs to create and develop dynamic capabilities, not only because it sustains their livelihood over generation, but because it also facilitates the entrepreneurial and strategic actions in creating the firm’s wealth.
{"title":"Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Entrepreneurship: A Study of Sri Lankan SMEs","authors":"P. Jayathilake","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2694203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2694203","url":null,"abstract":"Strategic entrepreneurship has been widely acknowledged as the appropriate context representing the way of creating value in business organization. However, yet we do not fully understand the process of strategic entrepreneurship or elements of it that give rise to them and as such strategic entrepreneurship remains in need of further explanation. This study primary believes that any concept or business model is required to address the dynamic changes in the markets. Thus, this study explains the dynamic capability concept and its role in perpetuating entrepreneurial and strategic actions in the SMEs. The dynamic view of resource based theory is adopted from firm level framework used to identify the unique bundle of dynamic capabilities that promote firm’s entrepreneurial and strategic actions. The identified framework was validated from the empirical data gathered through the explorative questionnaire survey of 488 manufacturing SMEs in Sri Lanka. The finding suggests that SMEs are better able to address market challenges when they have strong dynamic abilities that engaged them in strategic entrepreneurship. The study thus encourages SMEs to create and develop dynamic capabilities, not only because it sustains their livelihood over generation, but because it also facilitates the entrepreneurial and strategic actions in creating the firm’s wealth.","PeriodicalId":414091,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Management Science eJournal","volume":"33 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123520840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper develops a method to estimate and simulate the adoption of a network good. I estimate demand for mobile phones as a function of individuals’ social networks, coverage, and prices, using transaction data from nearly the entire network of Rwandan mobile phone subscribers over 4.5 years. Because subscribers pay on the margin for calls, the calls placed reveal the value of communicating with each contact. This feature allows me to overcome traditional difficulties in measuring network effects, by estimating the utility of adopting a phone based on its eventual usage. I use this structural model to simulate the effects of two governmental policies. An adoption subsidy had a high social rate of return, and spillovers accounted for a substantial fraction of its impact. A requirement to serve rural areas lowered the operator’s profits but increased net social welfare. Benefits from this policy were widely dispersed, with the majority accruing to individuals in areas where coverage was not affected.
{"title":"The Adoption of Network Goods: Evidence from the Spread of Mobile Phones in Rwanda","authors":"Daniel Björkegren","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2616524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2616524","url":null,"abstract":"This paper develops a method to estimate and simulate the adoption of a network good. I estimate demand for mobile phones as a function of individuals’ social networks, coverage, and prices, using transaction data from nearly the entire network of Rwandan mobile phone subscribers over 4.5 years. Because subscribers pay on the margin for calls, the calls placed reveal the value of communicating with each contact. This feature allows me to overcome traditional difficulties in measuring network effects, by estimating the utility of adopting a phone based on its eventual usage. I use this structural model to simulate the effects of two governmental policies. An adoption subsidy had a high social rate of return, and spillovers accounted for a substantial fraction of its impact. A requirement to serve rural areas lowered the operator’s profits but increased net social welfare. Benefits from this policy were widely dispersed, with the majority accruing to individuals in areas where coverage was not affected.","PeriodicalId":414091,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Management Science eJournal","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123755422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
India has a massive 1.2 billion population of which a high proportion of them are young. The demand for education in developing countries like India has skyrocketed as education is still regarded as an important bridge of social, economic and political mobility. India has innumerable challenges in terms of infrastructure, socio-economic, linguistic and physical barriers for people who wish to access education. The focus of this paper is to examine the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in with a new paradigm in higher education in India in the 21st century. India has a billion-plus population and a high proportion of the young and hence it has a large formal education system. The demand for education in developing countries like India has skyrocketed as education is still regarded as an important bridge of social, economic and political mobility. There exist infrastructure, socio-economic, linguistic and physical barriers in India for people who wish to access education. This includes infrastructure, teacher and the processes quality. There exist drawbacks in general education in India as well as all over the world like lack of learning materials, teachers, remoteness of education facilities, high dropout rate etc. Innovative use of Information and Communication Technology can potentially solve this problem. Internet usage in home and work place has grown exponentially. ICT has the potential to remove the barriers that are causing the problems of low rate of education in any country. It can be used as a tool to overcome the issues of cost, less number of teachers, and poor quality of education as well as to overcome time and distance barriers. To conclude, Higher education in India is an extraordinarily important part of modern Indian society and it is intertwined in the political and social systems of the society. It is in need of change, development and important. In order to effectively plan for reforms and improvement, it is necessary to have in realistic perceptions of what is possible and what is not.
{"title":"A New Paradigm in Higher Education in India","authors":"D. Amutha","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2543730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2543730","url":null,"abstract":"India has a massive 1.2 billion population of which a high proportion of them are young. The demand for education in developing countries like India has skyrocketed as education is still regarded as an important bridge of social, economic and political mobility. India has innumerable challenges in terms of infrastructure, socio-economic, linguistic and physical barriers for people who wish to access education. The focus of this paper is to examine the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in with a new paradigm in higher education in India in the 21st century. India has a billion-plus population and a high proportion of the young and hence it has a large formal education system. The demand for education in developing countries like India has skyrocketed as education is still regarded as an important bridge of social, economic and political mobility. There exist infrastructure, socio-economic, linguistic and physical barriers in India for people who wish to access education. This includes infrastructure, teacher and the processes quality. There exist drawbacks in general education in India as well as all over the world like lack of learning materials, teachers, remoteness of education facilities, high dropout rate etc. Innovative use of Information and Communication Technology can potentially solve this problem. Internet usage in home and work place has grown exponentially. ICT has the potential to remove the barriers that are causing the problems of low rate of education in any country. It can be used as a tool to overcome the issues of cost, less number of teachers, and poor quality of education as well as to overcome time and distance barriers. To conclude, Higher education in India is an extraordinarily important part of modern Indian society and it is intertwined in the political and social systems of the society. It is in need of change, development and important. In order to effectively plan for reforms and improvement, it is necessary to have in realistic perceptions of what is possible and what is not.","PeriodicalId":414091,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Management Science eJournal","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133931932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social media, consumer forums, review sites and blogs facilitate wider and faster sharing of customer experiences. Consumers look at user-generated reviews in consumer portals before deciding to purchase products/services. This Paper aims at studying effects of online reviews on intentions of existing and potential customers to pursue specific actions with regard to budget- and mid-range housing projects offered by a Bangalore-based realty company (Bangalore Realty Limited - BRL). Main data set for the study comprises of 221 user online reviews - in eight consumer review/complaint portals over a period of four years (2010-2014), supplemented by personal interviews of 25 customers. Online reviews are subjected to manual content analysis. Emergent themes in the reviews are identified and frequencies for negative and positive themes, valence and outcomes - which culminate in actions such as ‘taking legal recourse’, ‘withdrawal from the project’ or intentions ‘not to recommend’ and ‘to recommend’ - are determined. Such intentions expressed in reviews convey strong messages as further “threads” and “comments” are generated. Parameters like ‘Mean time to get the complaints resolved’ (in case of registration of sites and getting refunds on cancellation) are determined. This study reveals that user-generated online reviews help customers for making decisions about ‘continuance’ or ‘withdrawal’ or ‘staying away’ from the projects of BRL. At the same time BRL itself benefits from monitoring and responding to such reviews through setting up of appropriate customer complaints handling system, for gathering, transmitting and resolution of issues raised in online reviews, which would minimize harmful effect of negative reviews and maximize beneficial effect of positive reviews. Giving timely responses to customer complaints/online reviews, and periodic communication about project status may not require additional capital outlay or human resources. BRL’s current policy of ignoring or being indifferent to online reviews would be detrimental for its revenues, reputation and future growth. Study is based on analysis of qualitative data which cannot be subjected to robust statistical tests. Many critical dimensions such as customer/user preferences, motives, expertise, involvement and credibility (of the portals, users posting online reviews) are not analyzed in this study, as online reviews do not contain relevant data.
{"title":"Effect of Online Reviews on Customers of Bangalore-Based Real Estate Company - An Exploratory Study","authors":"S. Sridhar, B. Harish","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2542697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2542697","url":null,"abstract":"Social media, consumer forums, review sites and blogs facilitate wider and faster sharing of customer experiences. Consumers look at user-generated reviews in consumer portals before deciding to purchase products/services. This Paper aims at studying effects of online reviews on intentions of existing and potential customers to pursue specific actions with regard to budget- and mid-range housing projects offered by a Bangalore-based realty company (Bangalore Realty Limited - BRL). Main data set for the study comprises of 221 user online reviews - in eight consumer review/complaint portals over a period of four years (2010-2014), supplemented by personal interviews of 25 customers. Online reviews are subjected to manual content analysis. Emergent themes in the reviews are identified and frequencies for negative and positive themes, valence and outcomes - which culminate in actions such as ‘taking legal recourse’, ‘withdrawal from the project’ or intentions ‘not to recommend’ and ‘to recommend’ - are determined. Such intentions expressed in reviews convey strong messages as further “threads” and “comments” are generated. Parameters like ‘Mean time to get the complaints resolved’ (in case of registration of sites and getting refunds on cancellation) are determined. This study reveals that user-generated online reviews help customers for making decisions about ‘continuance’ or ‘withdrawal’ or ‘staying away’ from the projects of BRL. At the same time BRL itself benefits from monitoring and responding to such reviews through setting up of appropriate customer complaints handling system, for gathering, transmitting and resolution of issues raised in online reviews, which would minimize harmful effect of negative reviews and maximize beneficial effect of positive reviews. Giving timely responses to customer complaints/online reviews, and periodic communication about project status may not require additional capital outlay or human resources. BRL’s current policy of ignoring or being indifferent to online reviews would be detrimental for its revenues, reputation and future growth. Study is based on analysis of qualitative data which cannot be subjected to robust statistical tests. Many critical dimensions such as customer/user preferences, motives, expertise, involvement and credibility (of the portals, users posting online reviews) are not analyzed in this study, as online reviews do not contain relevant data.","PeriodicalId":414091,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Management Science eJournal","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127461480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Computing power and analytical methods allow us to create, collate, and analyze more data than ever before. When datasets are unusually large in volume, velocity, and variety, they are referred to as “big data.�? Some observers have suggested that in order to cope with big data (a) organizational structures will need to change and (b) the processes used to design organizations will be different. In this article, we differentiate big data from relatively slow-moving, linked people data. We argue that big data will change organizational structures as organizations pursue the opportunities presented by big data. The processes by which organizations are designed, however, will be relatively unaffected by big data. Instead, organization design processes will be more affected by the complex links found in people data.
{"title":"Will Organization Design Be Affected by Big Data?","authors":"Giles Slinger, Rupert Morrison","doi":"10.7146/JOD.9729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/JOD.9729","url":null,"abstract":"Computing power and analytical methods allow us to create, collate, and analyze more data than ever before. When datasets are unusually large in volume, velocity, and variety, they are referred to as “big data.�? Some observers have suggested that in order to cope with big data (a) organizational structures will need to change and (b) the processes used to design organizations will be different. In this article, we differentiate big data from relatively slow-moving, linked people data. We argue that big data will change organizational structures as organizations pursue the opportunities presented by big data. The processes by which organizations are designed, however, will be relatively unaffected by big data. Instead, organization design processes will be more affected by the complex links found in people data.","PeriodicalId":414091,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Management Science eJournal","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128987825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study focuses on retail promotion planning problem in a multi-objective, multimarket and multi-period framework and concomitantly addresses the following questions: What are the conditions for a retailer to offer an online promotion to all or a select set of the markets it is operating in? How should the retailer select the partial set of markets to offer a promotion? How should the selection of promotion period and markets be coordinated? Starting from a simple two market, single-period scenario, we gradually build our model to address the large scale promotion coordination problem via a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm with decomposition and pareto local search" (MOEA/D-PLS). The proposed algorithm allows retailers to coordinate online price promotions in multiple retail markets over multiple periods, minimizing demand leakage from offline to online channels and preventing demand drain and stock-outs. It decomposes the complex multi-objective optimization problem into a set of single-objective optimization problems, and uses an evolutionary algorithm to solve each problem simultaneously, improving the quality of solutions via a problem-specific Pareto local search method. This method allows large scale promotion planning problem, which is computationally non-trivial, to be solved optimally in an efficient manner. To demonstrate the proposed methodology, we discuss a numerical implementation of the algorithm using data from a large nation-wide pizza chain.
{"title":"Optimizing Online Promotion Planning: A Multi-Objective, Multi-Market, Multi-Period Approach","authors":"Yuanchun Jiang, J. Shang, Pinar Yildirim","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2713049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2713049","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on retail promotion planning problem in a multi-objective, multimarket and multi-period framework and concomitantly addresses the following questions: What are the conditions for a retailer to offer an online promotion to all or a select set of the markets it is operating in? How should the retailer select the partial set of markets to offer a promotion? How should the selection of promotion period and markets be coordinated? Starting from a simple two market, single-period scenario, we gradually build our model to address the large scale promotion coordination problem via a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm with decomposition and pareto local search\" (MOEA/D-PLS). The proposed algorithm allows retailers to coordinate online price promotions in multiple retail markets over multiple periods, minimizing demand leakage from offline to online channels and preventing demand drain and stock-outs. It decomposes the complex multi-objective optimization problem into a set of single-objective optimization problems, and uses an evolutionary algorithm to solve each problem simultaneously, improving the quality of solutions via a problem-specific Pareto local search method. This method allows large scale promotion planning problem, which is computationally non-trivial, to be solved optimally in an efficient manner. To demonstrate the proposed methodology, we discuss a numerical implementation of the algorithm using data from a large nation-wide pizza chain.","PeriodicalId":414091,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Management Science eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129680398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cloud bursting is a hybrid computing resource model in which a firm firstly uses its own internal computing resources and then bursts to a public cloud for extra resources as needed. This paper develops quantitative models to examine whether a firm who has on-site capacity can be benefited from cloud bursting. If a firm adopts a hybrid cloud, while it benefits from immediate, extra computing resources, and scalability, but it assumes the risks of security threats and service outages from this external resource. If a firm uses only a private cloud, while security threats and service outage risks may be far lower than with a hybrid cloud, it may lose the opportunity to profit due at peak times due to limited resource capacity. Overall, we show that firms can benefit from the hybrid clouds if risk is considerably low while firms would benefit from using the private clouds if risk is considerably high. Interestingly, firms may display counterintuitive cloud deployments when facing risk of outage that one firm deploys a hybrid cloud and another deploys a private cloud when risk of outage is considerably low and both firms prefer the hybrid clouds when risk of outage is considerably high.
{"title":"Is Cloud Bursting/Hybrid Cloud Advantageous to a Firm Who Has On-Site Capacity?","authors":"Li-Ming Chen, Yu-Chen Ben Yang, Wei-Lun Chang","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2545688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2545688","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud bursting is a hybrid computing resource model in which a firm firstly uses its own internal computing resources and then bursts to a public cloud for extra resources as needed. This paper develops quantitative models to examine whether a firm who has on-site capacity can be benefited from cloud bursting. If a firm adopts a hybrid cloud, while it benefits from immediate, extra computing resources, and scalability, but it assumes the risks of security threats and service outages from this external resource. If a firm uses only a private cloud, while security threats and service outage risks may be far lower than with a hybrid cloud, it may lose the opportunity to profit due at peak times due to limited resource capacity. Overall, we show that firms can benefit from the hybrid clouds if risk is considerably low while firms would benefit from using the private clouds if risk is considerably high. Interestingly, firms may display counterintuitive cloud deployments when facing risk of outage that one firm deploys a hybrid cloud and another deploys a private cloud when risk of outage is considerably low and both firms prefer the hybrid clouds when risk of outage is considerably high.","PeriodicalId":414091,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Management Science eJournal","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124468002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Firms often choose to grow and diversify via mergers and acquisitions (M&A) because acquiring and integrating an ongoing entity is perceived to be a fast and less risky means of entering desirable markets, gaining new knowledge and new capabilities, or adding to the firm’s product line. In this paper, we analyzed the effects of diversifying via M&A on post-deal technological performance in the U.S. communication services sector. Seeking patterns of whether the more-diversified firm draws upon a broader range of technological domains in its post-acquisition, subsequently- patented inventions, we observe patterns of changing patenting activity into related technological classes, and with various patterns of patenting lags.
{"title":"Does M&A Diversification Improve Post-Deal Technological Performance?","authors":"M. DiGuardo, K. R. Harrigan, Elona Marku","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2534773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2534773","url":null,"abstract":"Firms often choose to grow and diversify via mergers and acquisitions (M&A) because acquiring and integrating an ongoing entity is perceived to be a fast and less risky means of entering desirable markets, gaining new knowledge and new capabilities, or adding to the firm’s product line. In this paper, we analyzed the effects of diversifying via M&A on post-deal technological performance in the U.S. communication services sector. Seeking patterns of whether the more-diversified firm draws upon a broader range of technological domains in its post-acquisition, subsequently- patented inventions, we observe patterns of changing patenting activity into related technological classes, and with various patterns of patenting lags.","PeriodicalId":414091,"journal":{"name":"Innovation & Management Science eJournal","volume":"194 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133047965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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