The Inter Corporation's Knowledge Similarity Effects On Innovation Value After Merger And Acquisition: The Moderating Role Of Intra Corporation's Knowledge Koncentration.

• Main Authors: Pei-Hsuan, Chen, 陳姵璇
• Other Authors: Chun-Chi, Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59405308320279256660

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 企業管理學系管理學碩士班 === 100 === I examine whether knowledge similarity of two companies influences innovative performance after merger and acquisition then focusing on R&D activity, explores how a firm designs its human resource structure to produce more innovative performance. I hypothesized that a firm’s innovative performance after merger is influenced by knowledge similarity and knowledge concentration. I propose that, the degree of firms’ knowledge similarity is negatively associated with its innovative performance. Besides, drawing from prior literature, I develop the hypotheses that the density of patent class concentration and patent human concentration within a firm will influence the relationship between knowledge similarity and innovative performance. I use patent data, on a sample of 62 pair data in the global semiconductor industry to test my hypotheses. The Results shows the degree of firms’ knowledge similarity is negatively associated with its innovative performance. However, the density of patent class concentration within a firm will moderate the relationship between the degree of firms’ knowledge similarity and its innovation performance such that this relationship is stronger when the density of patent class concentration within a firm is high. The density of patent human concentration within a firm will moderate the relationship between the degree of a firms’ knowledge similarity and its innovative performance such that this relationship is weak when the density of patent human concentration within a firm is high.