Factors Impacting Results Of Israeli Hi-Tech Companies' Acquisition

For over 30 years scholars and practitioners have been looking for an integrative theory that would enable successful Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A). Yet, most M&A destroy, rather than create value (Marks, Mirvis 2011 2008). The goal of this book is to improve the success rate of acquisitions in the technology driven sector through the identification of the most significant factors that affect the outcome of M&A and the way they impact the results. The research is subscribed to interpretive philosophy and case study strategy. The research population includes three technology driven acquisitions that took place between 1999 and 2006. Using in depth interviews, observations and secondary resources the research provides a holistic, rich details description of the acquisitions and its outcomes. The study's contribution to knowledge is the identification of the specific factors that affected the results of researched cases and the development of an integrated, holistic description of the business, technology and organizational aspects that were most directly linked to acquisitions' performance.