Consequences of TMT dynamics: The failure to utilize innovation from technology acquisitions

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

8-2014

Abstract

We explore how CEO characteristics affect post-acquisition knowledge transfer outcomes. We posit that a CEO’s technical background and self-importance influence an acquiring firm’s ability to recognize and respond to the Not-Invented-Here (NIH) syndrome often experienced by R&D teams. We find that firms with CEOs holding technology titles but no experience as R&D professionals and those headed by self-important CEOs tend to experience poorer knowledge transfer outcomes. We also find that similarity between technologies of acquiring and target firms and R&D team tenure intensify the effect of CEO’s technical background and self-importance on NIH syndrome.

Discipline

Human Resources Management | Strategic Management Policy

Research Areas

Strategy and Organisation

Publication

Academy of Management Proceedings: 74th AOM 2014, August 1-5, Philadelphia

Identifier

10.5465/ambpp.2014.52

Publisher

Academy of Management

City or Country

Briarcliff Manor, NY

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2014.52

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