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killer acquisitions: a standalone construct

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killeracquisitions1 CONSTRUCTKiller acquisitionsCUNNINGHAM · INDUSTRIAL

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Industrial organization

acquisitions in which incumbents buy innovative targets to discontinue their overlapping projects and pre-empt future competition.

In industrial organization, killer acquisitions refers to acquisitions in which incumbents buy innovative targets to discontinue their overlapping projects and pre-empt future competition. This meaning comes from Cunningham (2021) in Journal of Political Economy.[1]

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  1. Cunningham, C., Ederer, F., & Ma, S. (2021). Killer Acquisitions. Journal of Political Economy, 129(3), 649-702. https://doi.org/10.1086/712506

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