Technology mergers and acquisitions in the presence of an installed base: A strategic analysis

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: WANG, Qiu-Hong, HUI, Kai-Lung
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• الموضوعات: Mergers and acquisitions; Installed base; Depreciation; Price discrimination; Computer Sciences; Management Information Systems; Technology and Innovation
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3451; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4452/viewcontent/2016_ISR_forthcoming.pdf; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4452/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/isre.2016.0659_sm.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

We study the strategic benefits of M&A when competing IT vendors sell different generations of the same product with different quality. We assume the new product arrives unexpectedly when an installed base of old product exists. We show that the combination of consumers' purchase history an...