Useche, DiegoMiguélez, ErnestLissoni, Francesco2025-02-242025-02-242020-07-010047-2506https://hdl.handle.net/2445/219158Based on a relational view of international business, we investigate the role of migrant inventors in Cross-Border Merger & Acquisitions (CBM&As) undertaken by R&D-active firms. We hypothesize that the migrant inventors’ international social networks can be leveraged upon by their employers in order to spot and/or integrate the knowledge bases of acquisition targets in the inventors’ home country. We nuance our hypothesis by means of several conditional logistic regressions on a large matched sample of deals and control cases. The impact of migrant inventors increases with the distance between countries and for targets located in countries with weak administrative/legal systems, as well as when targets are either innovative or belong to high-tech sectors or to the same sector as the acquirer, and for full versus partial acquisitions.26 p.application/pdfeng(c) cademy of International Business, 2020Anàlisi de regressióRecerca industrialInventorsGestió de la innovacióRegression analysisIndustrial researchInventorsInnovation managementinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article7567902025-02-24info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess