Make or Buy New Technology – a CEO Compensation Contract’s Role in a Firm’s Route to Innovation

Firms obtain new technology either through internal R&D or through acquisitions. These two approaches are usually labeled as "make" and "buy" strategies. In this paper, I examine the relation between a firm's choice of "make" or "buy" and the performa...

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Main Author: Xue, Yanfeng
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/4049