Corporate Acq

Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences- 2002knowledge is done on a large-scale basis, as in the case of the acquisition of a whole organization by another. For acquiring complex forms of information or knowledge, grafting is seen to be faster than (knowledge) acquisition through experience and more complete than (knowledge) acquisition through imitation”. Not all corporate acquisitions are meant to support organizational learning through grafting. A company’s acquisition motive might also be to enlarge their client base, increase the number of further insight into how to manage and structure learning though acquisition. Moreover, given that many larger organizations make multiple acquisitions, this rate of failure suggests that these organizations are not effectively learning from their past experiences. It is therefore surprising to note that research into the micro processes of knowledge transfer through acquisition is strikingly limited. In the following, we will review the literature in order to assess what is already known about knowledg