학위논문 (석사) -- 서울대학교 대학원 : 경영대학 경영학과, 2020. 8. 박남규.This paper investigates the effects of an acquirers creativity on post-M&A knowledge creation by analyzing the contents of the press releases issued by the acquiring firms. I apply and advance the prior management researches on creativity, integrating fundamental constructs and perspectives of them. The main argument is that creative companies will produce better performance after the M&A than non-creative companies when the industry relatedness between the merging firms is low. My theoretical framework was examined empirically across a sample of 251 M&As for ten years from 2005 to 2014. The results show several notable findings. First, the industry relatedness of acquired firms to their acqu...