Acquisition integration and productivity losses in the technical core: Disruption of inventors in acquired companies

Organization Science

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 545-562

  Paruchuri, Srikanth ^a   Nerkar, Atul ^b   Hambrick, Donald C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Integration; Inventors; Productivity; Routines

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749384589     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1060.0207     Document Type: Article

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