Opening the grey box: Social communities, knowledge and culture in acquisitions

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zander, Udo; Zander, Lena
• 署名单位: Stockholm School of Economics; Uppsala University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2009.76
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 27-37
• 关键词: knowledge-based view of the firm; Cross-border mergers and acquisitions; NATIONAL CULTURE; Cultural distance; Knowledge transfer; social communities

摘要

International acquisitions are today the most important foreign direct investment vehicle, and the ensuing integration processes are notoriously fraught with problems. We situate, discuss, and develop the main results of an early study in the knowledge-based view tradition - the award-winning Bresman, Birkinshaw, and Nobel (1999) article. To enhance and develop the central contributions regarding social communities, knowledge, and culture, we use the metaphor of unpacking the grey box. We argue that heavy socialization is a rational learning strategy, even if the acquirer aims at appropriating the target's technology or wishes to impose its dominant logic. Journal of International Business Studies (2010) 41, 27-37. doi:10.1057/jibs.2009.76