Modeling the factors that influence knowledge transfer in mergers and acquisitions

• 作者: LIANG Zhanping YU Haiyan
• 来源期刊: 中国文献情报：英文版
• 学科: 社会科学
• 关键词: Mergers and ACQUISITIONS KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER Knowle
• 年，卷（期）: 2010,（2）
• 页码范围: 48-59
• 页数: 12页
• 分类号: G203

摘要

This paper constructs a model on the factors that influence knowledge transfer in mergers and acquisitions(M&A)and validates it via questionnaire surveys.Using 125valid collected questionnaires,multiple linear regression analysis and hierarchical regression analysis showed that five out of the ten factors had a positive effect on knowledge transfer effect.The ranking of factor importance,from high to low,was knowledge explicitness,relationship quality,learning intent,advanced transfer activities,and learning capability,which is fairly consistent with positive factors observed in other interorganizational knowledge transfer researches.Our results also showed that one of the control variables(size of acquired firm)had neither a direct or indirect effect on knowledge transfer in M&A.Additionally,our research found that knowledge distance and degree of M&A integration had a positive influence on knowledge transfer effect at the early stage after M&A,but had a negative influence at the late stage.Based on this research,several suggestions for knowledge transfer in M&A are proposed.