What do they know? The effects of outside director acquisition experience on firm acquisition performance
dc.contributor.author | McDonald, Michael L. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Westphal, James D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Graebner, Melissa E. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-11-03T18:54:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-01-05T16:59:14Z | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2008-11 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | McDonald, Michael L.; Westphal, James D.; Graebner, Melissa E. (2008). "What do they know? The effects of outside director acquisition experience on firm acquisition performance." Strategic Management Journal 29(11): 1155-1177. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/61235> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0143-2095 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1097-0266 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/61235 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article contributes to the literature on board effectiveness by being perhaps the first to systematically examine how the nature of outside directors' prior experience, and resulting expertise, will influence the performance of a focal firm's strategic initiatives. Our theoretical model is grounded in the psychological literature on expertise and its role in group decision making effectiveness. We focus on outside director expertise in acquisition decision making, and its implications for the performance of the acquisitions of a focal firm. Our conceptual framework indicates that directors will develop expertise in making particular kinds of acquisition decisions (e.g., related or unrelated acquisitions or acquisitions in specific industries or product markets) through their past experiences at other firms with decisions about those specific types of acquisitions, and we predict that this experience and expertise will have positive effects on the performance of a focal firm's acquisitions. We extend our theoretical model to consider the conditions under which relevant director experience will prove most beneficial. Our model predicts that outside director acquisition expertise will deliver the greatest benefits when the focal firm's board is independent from management. We find empirical support for all of our hypotheses. In considering how and when director experience and resulting expertise may influence the performance of corporate acquisitions, our theory and results help to highlight a potential second main focus for research on the long-standing question of what factors render boards of directors effective. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Business, Finance & Management | en_US |
dc.title | What do they know? The effects of outside director acquisition experience on firm acquisition performance | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Business (General) | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Film and Video Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Management | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Urban Planning | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Business | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Arts | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | College of Business, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. ; University of Central Florida, College of Business, Management Department, P.O. Box 161400, Orlando, FL 32816, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/61235/1/704_ftp.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smj.704 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Strategic Management Journal | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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