Show simple item record

Files in this item

Thumbnail

Item metadata

dc.contributor.authorMawson, Suzanne
dc.contributor.authorBrown, Ross Crawford
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-16T23:33:13Z
dc.date.available2018-04-16T23:33:13Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationMawson , S & Brown , R C 2017 , ' Entrepreneurial acquisitions, open innovation and UK high growth SMEs ' , Industry and Innovation , vol. 24 , no. 4 , pp. 382-402 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2016.1244764en
dc.identifier.issn1366-2716
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 246457926
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 37fa913e-f57e-4aa8-b18c-1e0bd1f65b4e
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84991489610
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000396819000003
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-6164-7639/work/82179639
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/13147
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the dynamics of entrepreneurial acquisitions undertaken by UK high growth small and medium enterprises (SMEs). While entrepreneurial acquisitions are increasingly deployed by SMEs, little is known about their antecedents, motivational drivers and organisational outcomes. Drawing on detailed case study evidence from Scotland, the key factor found to be driving these acquisitions was the desire to augment and exploit technological complementarities between the acquiring and acquired firms. Acquisition can therefore be conceptualised as an advanced stage of the outside-in ‘open innovation’ strategies proactively used within these innovative SMEs. Firms executing this strategy typically have an acute propensity for risk, a desire for close customer engagement, effective business models and strong external orientation. The work suggests that greater attention should be paid within M&A theory to the dynamics of these kind of smaller scale entrepreneurial acquisitions.
dc.format.extent21
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofIndustry and Innovationen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2016, Informa UK Ltd, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2016.1244764en
dc.subjectEntrepreneurshipen
dc.subjectHigh growth firmsen
dc.subjectAcquisitionen
dc.subjectOpen innovationen
dc.subjectM&Asen
dc.subjectUKen
dc.subjectHF Commerceen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subjectSDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growthen
dc.subjectSDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructureen
dc.subject.lccHFen
dc.titleEntrepreneurial acquisitions, open innovation and UK high growth SMEsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Managementen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for the Study of Philanthropy & Public Gooden
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Responsible Banking and Financeen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2016.1244764
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2018-04-16


This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record