1, 2, 10? Or better not at all? In M&A it’s sort of a gamble. A gamble whether to hire advisors, because the payoff is uncertain. A gamble in terms of sharing proprietary knowledge as advisors are commonly viewed upon as hired gun, and that comes with trust issues if you are not careful. But …
In the automotive industry supply networks and board interlocks are interlinked. Through stochastic actor-based modelling analysis for the longitudinal and multilevel networks of 86 firms active in the Chinese automotive, Rongkang Ma (Dalian University) and I looked into how these layered relationships jointly influence firms’ entry into new technology domains and exit from old technology …
Under the title ’Dancing to the Rhythm: the Dynamics of Acquisition Motive on Acquisition Programmes’, my esteemed phd student Jonas Geisen has been working hard on on a paper that adresses corporate portfolio thinking. Zooming in one specific aspect of corporate development, the project investigates firms’ acquisitive behaviour, a mean to pair firms of selected high-tech …
This fall prof. dr. Koen Heimeriks of Warwick Business School and I organized a well received Extension Conference on ‘Behavioral Biases and Corporate Transformation Strategies’ for the Strategic Management Society in London. Hosted by Atos London, we discussed the intriguing theme of ‘Behavioral Biases and Corporate Transformation Strategies’. With keynote speakers from Warton BusinessSchool and Pennsylvania …
As co-organizer of the 2022 sms preconference on Behavioral Biases in strategic tasks- together with Koen Heimeriks of Warwick – we recenty had the pleasure to put together the following excellent lineup for our London event at Atos this fall. Thank you to all contributors, including: speakers:
It now is a wrap at the Academy of Management Conference in Seattle, were we presented some ongoing work as part of the Behavioral Antecedents of Mergers and Acquisitions research line that I have going on recently.The working paper is driven by my phd student Jonas Roettger who has been mobilizing the full promotor team …
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Recently, Killian McCarthy, Jonas Röttger, Menno Huisman and I joined forces to explore the strategies backing serial acquisitions. These efforts resulted no into: “Moving motives: How past and present strategy influence the market” In the article that feautres in PLOSONE we discuss how research often only considers the performance of a single acquisition, or the effects …
Need cars do not come about by themselves. They are invented, engineered. This creative process is more and more becoming a true collaborative endeavor within the automotive industry. but what makes for succesfull collaborative Innovation? In this Case Study of the German Automotive Industry, Eoin Whelan (NUI Galway) and I- with massive help by Miriam …
Based on ideas form network theory, we looked into the social interactions as they took place over more than a decade, as we tracked a major English-speaking online health community. Interaction data for the study were collected in July 2017 and consisted of all contributions made this timespan, totalling to 147,561 user profiles and 197,980 …
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Date of news: 18 November 2021 Recently, and together with my great phd student Jasper van Boven and Prof. Wilfred Dolfsma at Wageningen University, I have started to dive into the relationship between restructuring and digitalization. Initiating a new line of research, the approach is to explore – based on prior M&A activities in the …