Thesis
The impact of prior experience on acquisition behaviour and performance
- Alternative title:
- An integrated examination of corporate acquisitions in the USA and UK
- Abstract:
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The objective of the thesis is to advance the concept of learning by explicating the mechanisms contributing to knowledge accumulation and its transfer to new situations. On the basis of 44 case studies, the framework is refined to accurately capture the unique features and outcomes of experiential knowledge in acquisitions. Feedback from the performance of prior acquisitions was found to enrich representations of action-outcome linkages and modify procedures in search and valuation. Infer...
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Funding
+ ORS, St Edmund Hall Graduate Scholarship
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Funding agency for:
Dionne, SS
Grant:
ORS Ref. no: 2003032064
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2008
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:2273
- Deposit date:
- 2008-08-12
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- Copyright holder:
- Dionne, SS
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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