TY - GEN
T1 - Introducing IT-enabled business flexibility and IT integration in the acquirer's M&A performance equation
AU - Benitez-Amado, Jose
AU - Ray, Gautam
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Though mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are a common strategy to reduce costs and pursue growth, the variance in returns from M&A is very high. This research explores how information technology (IT) affects firms' ability to sense and seize M&A opportunities and assimilate acquisitions. Using a combination of secondary as well as matched-pair survey data from 100 mid-size Spanish firms, the empirical analysis suggests that through the development of business flexibility and IT integration capability, a flexible IT infrastructure enables firms to pursue M&A opportunities and facilitates the integration of IT and business resources of the merged firm, to help realize the economic benefits of M&A activities.
AB - Though mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are a common strategy to reduce costs and pursue growth, the variance in returns from M&A is very high. This research explores how information technology (IT) affects firms' ability to sense and seize M&A opportunities and assimilate acquisitions. Using a combination of secondary as well as matched-pair survey data from 100 mid-size Spanish firms, the empirical analysis suggests that through the development of business flexibility and IT integration capability, a flexible IT infrastructure enables firms to pursue M&A opportunities and facilitates the integration of IT and business resources of the merged firm, to help realize the economic benefits of M&A activities.
KW - Business flexibility
KW - Dynamic capability
KW - IT infrastructure flexibility
KW - IT integration capability
KW - M and A
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84886462392
SN - 9781627486040
T3 - International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012
SP - 907
EP - 927
BT - International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012
T2 - International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012
Y2 - 16 December 2012 through 19 December 2012
ER -