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  • 标题:Mergers and Acquisitions (M&AS) by R&D Intensive Firms
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  • 作者:Dutta, Shantanu ; Kumar, Vinod
  • 期刊名称:Journal of Risk and Financial Management
  • 印刷版ISSN:1911-8074
  • 出版年度:2009
  • 卷号:2
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:1-37
  • 出版社:MDPI, Open Access Journal
  • 摘要:In this study, we evaluate the impact of R&D intensity on acquiring firms’ abnormal returns by examining 925 Canadian completed deals between 1993 and 2002 that have information on R&D expenditures. While examining the returns to acquiring firm shareholders in the R&D intensive firms we evaluate two competing hypotheses: ‘growth potential hypothesis’ and ‘integration failure hypothesis’. According to the ‘growth potential hypothesis’, in light of the growth potential of the targets acquired by R&D intensive firms, investors are likely to react positively. ‘Integration failure hypothesis’ focuses on integration difficulties of a target by an R&D intensive firms and suggests that investor might be skeptical of such acquisitions and react negatively. Our results show that R&D intensity (i.e. R&D expenditure by sales) has a positive and significant effect on cumulative abnormal returns of the acquiring firms around the announcement dates. This implies that market generally favors the M&A deals by R&D intensive firms. An analysis of the differentiating characteristics reveal that R&D firms have a significantly higher growth potential and undertake more stock financed deals compared to the non R&D firms. Further, our results show that there is no significant change in long-term operating performance subsequent to the M&A deals for both R&D firms and non R&D firms. In general, our results show support for ‘growth potential hypothesis’.
  • 关键词:Mergers and Acquisitions; R&D intensity; Abnormal returns; Long-term performance
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