Stock Market Reactions to Knowledge-Motivated Acquisitions

Ricardo Romero Gerbaud; Anne S. York

doi:10.1016/S1479-361X(07)06006-1

Stock Market Reactions to Knowledge-Motivated Acquisitions

Ricardo Romero Gerbaud, Anne S. York

Department of Marketing and Management

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Abstract

This study uses a new, fine-grained, firm-based measure of target resources to investigate the relationship between target resource type and acquirer stock market performance. Our findings suggest that the market punishes acquirers of knowledge-based resources more than those that buy property-based resources due to the perceived uncertainty regarding the value of targets' knowledge resources. In support of the underlying uncertainty argument, we find that managers announcing knowledge-based mergers provide more information in their press releases than those announcing property-based transactions. While prior studies have suggested that resource relatedness may moderate the resource type and acquisition performance link, our findings do not support either a direct or moderating relationship.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions
Editors	Cary Cooper, Sydney Finkelstein
Pages	127-156
Number of pages	30
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-361X(07)06006-1
State	Published - Jul 3 2007

Publication series

Name	Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions
Volume	6
ISSN (Print)	1479-361X

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Business and International Management

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Gerbaud, R. R., & York, A. S. (2007). Stock Market Reactions to Knowledge-Motivated Acquisitions. In C. Cooper, & S. Finkelstein (Eds.), Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions (pp. 127-156). (Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions; Vol. 6). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-361X(07)06006-1

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