A dual view on IT challenges in corporate divestments and acquisitions
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posted on 2024-06-04, 07:06authored byM Böhm, S Henningsson, JM Leimeister, Philip YettonPhilip Yetton, H Krcmar
Acquisitions of new businesses and divestments of existing ones are frequently components of large organizations' corporate strategies. In both acquisitions and divestments, corporate IT infrastructure plays a critical role for realizing business objectives. In this paper, we take a dual view of the IT-related challenges in divestment and acquisition strategies, studying them as a single integrated transaction between a buyer and a seller and investigating how the IT carve-out and IT integration strategies influence each other. The extant literature on the interaction between carve-outs and integration strategies is an empty set. Here, we begin to shed light to the limitations of the carve-out contract, the processes of carving out a business unit from one and integrating it into another multi-business organization, asymmetries in both parties' preferences for an IT transaction process and its influence on arising challenges and organization performance.
History
Volume
5
Pagination
3801-3819
Location
Shanghai, China
Start date
2011-12-04
End date
2011-12-07
ISBN-13
9781618394729
Language
eng
Publication classification
E1.1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice
2011, The Authors
Editor/Contributor(s)
[Unknown]
Title of proceedings
ICIS 2011 : East meets West: connectivity and collaboration through effective information systems : International Conference of Information Systems 2011
Event
Association for Information Systems. Conference (32nd : 2011 : Shanghai, China)