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Highly-skilled migrants and Cross-border M&A: Firm-level evidence

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Based on a relational view of international business, we investigate the role of migrant inventors in cross-border mergers and acquisitions undertaken by R&D-active firms. We hypothesize that the migrant inventors’ international social networks can be leveraged by their employers in order to identify and/or integrate relevant knowledge bases of acquisition targets in the inventors’ home country. We nuance our hypothesis by means of several conditional logistic regressions on a large matched sample of deals and control cases. The impact of migrant inventors increases with the distance between countries and for targets located in countries with weak administrative/legal systems, as well as when targets are either innovative or belong to high-tech sectors or to the same sector as the acquirer, and for full versus partial acquisitions.
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hal-02271307 , version 1 (02-02-2022)

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F. Lissoni, D. Useche, E. Miguelez. Highly-skilled migrants and Cross-border M&A: Firm-level evidence. Journal of International Business Studies, 2020, 51 (5), pp.737-763. ⟨10.1057/s41267-018-0203-3⟩. ⟨hal-02271307⟩

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