Japanese Innovation Strategy and the Aquisition of UK Information Technology Firms

Corporate acquisitions can provide an effective mechanism for maintaining growth in conditions of technological uncertainty, but typically suffer very high failure rates. This thesis presents a resource-based framework for analysing corporate acquisitions in times of rapid technological change. The thesis discusses how such acquisitions can be used to access resources that are of immediate use, but also enhance the acquirer's ability to access resources in the future.

Name dc:type.qualificationname

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level dc:type.qualificationlevel

Doctoral

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

University of Cambridge

Year dc:date.issued

1997

Author dc:creator

• Minshall, Timothy Herbert Warren

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Garnsey, Elizabeth
• Oliver, Nick
• Whittaker, Hugh

• Dynamic capabilities
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Resource Based View
• Japan
• Information Technology

Licence

• https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/5bd2ea68-a087-430d-b89d-83a6cbe8c92c/download
• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Language dc:language

en

Author Identifier

0000-0003-4409-9826

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/269704