USECHE, D.; LISSONI, Francesco

doi:10.1057/s41267-018-0203-3

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USECHE, D.

LISSONI, Francesco

Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée [GREThA]

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Based on a relational view of international business, we investigate the role of migrant inventors in cross-border mergers and acquisitions undertaken by R&D-active firms. We hypothesize that the migrant inventors’ international social networks can be leveraged by their employers in order to identify and/or integrate relevant knowledge bases of acquisition targets in the inventors’ home country. We nuance our hypothesis by means of several conditional logistic regressions on a large matched sample of deals and control cases. The impact of migrant inventors increases with the distance between countries and for targets located in countries with weak administrative/legal systems, as well as when targets are either innovative or belong to high-tech sectors or to the same sector as the acquirer, and for full versus partial acquisitions.< Leer menos

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Highly skilled and well connected: Migrant inventors in cross-border M&As

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