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Do market, resource and knowledge distance impact inbound cross-border acquisition?

Raghavendra Chandrika, Taimur Sharif, Rampilla Mahesh, Miklesh Prasad Yadav, Mohammad Abedin Orcid Logo

Global Finance Journal, Volume: 57, Start page: 100862

Swansea University Author: Mohammad Abedin Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.gfj.2023.100862

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With the increasing phenomena of cross-border acquisition (CBA) activities in emerging economies (EE), evidence about “distance” factors that make these economies attractive to home country firms is sparse. Given this background, we employ major locational advantage distance measures such as market,...

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Published in: Global Finance Journal
ISSN: 1044-0283 1873-5665
Published: Elsevier BV 2023
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63704
Abstract: With the increasing phenomena of cross-border acquisition (CBA) activities in emerging economies (EE), evidence about “distance” factors that make these economies attractive to home country firms is sparse. Given this background, we employ major locational advantage distance measures such as market, resource, and knowledge distances and examine their impact on the value and number of inbound CBAs in India. We source inbound CBA deal data from the Thomson Reuters Eikon database for the 1990–2020 period during which 47 home countries were making acquisitions of targets in India. We develop relevant hypotheses based on a literature review. We run tobit and negative binomial regression models on a final sample of 921 country-pair-year observations to test the hypotheses. The results show that increasing market and knowledge distances enhanced the value and number of India's inbound CBAs, fueled by the country's growth potential and knowledge base. However, we find no evidence of a role played by resource distance.
Keywords: Cross-border acquisitions, Knowledge distance, Locational advantage, Market distance, Resource distance
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Funders: Swansea University
Start Page: 100862

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