Integrating Acquired Capabilities: When Structural Integration Is (Un)necessary
研究收购小型科技公司后，结构性整合可能破坏其创新能力，提出相互依赖和共同基础是决定整合必要性的关键因素，为管理者提供整合决策参考。
Acquirers who buy small technology-based firms for their technological capabilities often discover that postmerger integration can destroy the very innovative capabilities that made the acquired organization attractive in the first place. Viewing structural integration as a mechanism to achieve coordination between acquirer and target organizations helps explain why structural integration may be necessary in technology acquisitions despite the costs of disruption this imposes, as well as the conditions under which it becomes less (or un-) necessary. We show that interdependence motivates structural integration but that preexisting common ground offers acquirers an alternate path to achieving coordination, which may be less disruptive than structural integration.