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Intents of Acquisitions in Information Technology Industrie

정보기술 산업에서의 인수 유형별 인수 의도 분석

  • Cho, Wooje (School of Business Administration, University of Seoul) ;
  • Chang, Young Bong (Business School, Sungkyungkwan University) ;
  • Kwon, Youngok (Division of Business Administration, Sookmyung Women's University)
  • Received : 2016.12.05
  • Accepted : 2016.12.25
  • Published : 2016.12.31
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Abstract

This study investigates intents of acquisitions in information technology industries. Mergers and acquisitions are a strategic decision at corporate-level and have been an important tool for a firm to grow. Plenty of firms in information technology industries have acquired startups to increase production efficiency, expand customer base, or improve quality over the last decades. For example, Google has made about 200 acquisitions since 2001, Cisco has acquired about 210 firms since 1993, Oracle has made about 125 acquisitions since 1994, and Microsoft has acquired about 200 firms since 1987. Although there have been many existing papers that theoretically study intents or motivations of acquisitions, there are limited papers that empirically investigate them mainly because it is challenging to measure and quantify intents of M&As. This study examines the intent of acquisitions by measuring specific intents for M&A transactions. Using our measures of acquisition intents, we compare the intents by four acquisition types: (1) the acquisition where a hardware firm acquires a hardware firm, (2) the acquisition where a hardware firm acquires a software/IT service firm, (3) the acquisition where a software/IT service firm acquires a hardware firm, and (4) the acquisition where a software /IT service firm acquires a software/IT service firm. We presume that there are difference in reasons why a hardware firm acquires another hardware firm, why a hardware firm acquires a software firm, why a software/IT service firm acquires a hardware firm, and why a software/IT service firm acquires another software/IT service firm. Using data of the M&As in US IT industries, we identified major intents of the M&As. The acquisition intents are identified based on the press release of M&A announcements and measured with four categories. First, an acquirer may have intents of cost saving in operations by sharing common resources between the acquirer and the target. The cost saving can accrue from economies of scope and scale. Second, an acquirer may have intents of product enhancement/development. Knowledge and skills transferred from the target may enable the acquirer to enhance the product quality or to expand product lines. Third, an acquirer may have intents of gain additional customer base to expand the market, to penetrate the market, or to enter a foreign market. Fourth, a firm may acquire a target with intents of expanding customer channels. By complementing existing channel to the customer, the firm can increase its revenue. Our results show that acquirers have had intents of cost saving more in acquisitions between hardware companies than in acquisitions between software companies. Hardware firms are more likely to acquire with intents of product enhancement or development than software firms. Overall, the intent of product enhancement/development is the most frequent intent in all of the four acquisition types, and the intent of customer base expansion is the second. We also analyze our data with the classification of production-side intents and customer-side intents, which is based on activities of the value chain of a firm. Intents of cost saving operations and those of product enhancement/development can be viewed as production-side intents and intents of customer base expansion and those of expanding customer channels can be viewed as customer-side intents. Our analysis shows that the ratio between the number of customer-side intents and that of production-side intents is higher in acquisitions where a software firm is an acquirer than in the acquisitions where a hardware firm is an acquirer. This study can contribute to IS literature. First, this study provides insights in understanding M&As in IT industries by answering for question of why an IT firm intends to another IT firm. Second, this study also provides distribution of acquisition intents for acquisition types.

전 세계적으로 기업의 중요한 전략적 수단으로 인수합병이 활발히 이루어지고 있고, 지능형 서비스 산업을 포함한 정보기술 산업에서의 인수합병 활동은 꾸준히 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 정보기술 산업 내에서 일어나는 인수합병 건에 대해 인수 기업 입장에서의 인수 의도에 초점을 두고 분석하였다. 특히, 두 하드웨어 기업 간, 하드웨어 기업 소프트웨어 기업 간, 두 소프트웨어 기업 간 인수합병 유형에 따라 인수 의도가 어떻게 다른지 비교하고자 하였고, 이를 위해 미국 정보기술 산업 내에서 1995년과 2010년 사이에 일어났던 1003개의 인수합병 건의 자료를 분석하였다. 인수 의도를 파악하는데 있어, 인수 기업의 입장에서 생산비용 절감 의도, 제품 개발 및 개선 의도, 고객층 확장 의도, 고객채널 확장 의도의 네 가지로 구분하여 측정하였다. 분석 결과 생산비용 절감 의도와 고객층 확장 의도는 하드웨어 기업이 피인수 기업일 때 더 많이 나타났고, 제품개발 의도는 하드웨어 기업이 인수 기업일 때 더 많이 나타났다. 그리고, 고객채널 확장 의도는 소프트웨어 기업이 피인수 기업일 때 더 많이 나타났다. 또한, 생산비용 절감 의도, 제품 개발 및 개선 의도를 제품생산 관련활동 의도로, 고객층 확장 의도와 고객채널 확장을 고객관련 활동 의도로 구분하여 비교하였을 때에는, 하드웨어 기업 간 인수합병에 비해, 두 소프트웨어 기업 간 인수합병에서 상대적으로 고객관련 활동 의도가 높은 비중을 나타내고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 활발하게 인수합병이 이루어지고 있는 세계적 추세와는 달리 국내 인수합병거래 규모는 선진국에 비해 매우 적은 수준이다. 본 연구는 인수합병이 보다 활발하게 이루어지고 있는 미국기술정보 산업에서의 인수 의도를 분석하여, 국내에서 인수합병 활동을 활성화하는 방안을 분석 및 개발하는데 기여하고자 한다.

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