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Network Opportunities and Obstacles in Mergers and Acquisitions: The Role of Resource Embeddedness

In: Managing Opportunity Development in Business Networks

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  • Enrico Baraldi
  • Torkel Strömsten

Abstract

Firms engage in mergers and acquisitions (M…As) in order to exploit and realise profit opportunities (Kirzner, 1997). According to the literature on M …As, these opportunities can implicitly be divided into Run-related opportunities and industry-related opportunities. Firm-related opportunities are concerned with exploiting managerial synergies, such as redundant functions or activities once two firms have merged (Sudarsanam et al., 1996). Industry-related opportunities concern the positive effects that a firm can obtain by changing or stabilising the structure of its industry: for example, taking over a firm producing a hostile substitute product (Porter, 1980, 1985).

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  • Enrico Baraldi & Torkel Strömsten, 2005. "Network Opportunities and Obstacles in Mergers and Acquisitions: The Role of Resource Embeddedness," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Pervez Ghauri & Amjad Hadjikhani & Jan Johanson (ed.), Managing Opportunity Development in Business Networks, chapter 10, pages 202-218, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37969-5_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230379695_11
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