Employee productivity, employment growth and the cross-border acquisitions by emerging market firms
Ataullah, Ali and Le, Hang and Sahota, Amandeep S. (2014) Employee productivity, employment growth and the cross-border acquisitions by emerging market firms. Human Resource Management, 53 (6). pp. 987-1004. ISSN 0090-4848 (https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21619)
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We examine the impact of the cross-border acquisitions made by firms from emerging markets on employee productivity and employment growth. The recent literature suggests that cross-border acquisitions enable emerging market firms to obtain new skills and knowledge-intensive assets, which, in turn, may lead to an increase in productivity. However, our empirical analysis suggests that cross-border acquisitions reduce employee productivity and have a limited impact on employment growth. Moreover, the adverse effect on productivity is associated with the cross-border acquisitions in less-developed countries and countries with considerably different national cultures. Overall, our findings cast doubt on the idea that cross-border acquisitions enable emerging market firms to improve the productivity of one of their most important resources, namely, their human capital.
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Item type: Article ID code: 51470 Dates: DateEventDecember 2014Published31 July 2014Published OnlineSubjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management Department: Strathclyde Business School > Accounting and Finance Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 05 Feb 2015 15:45 Last modified: 08 Apr 2024 21:59 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/51470