Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/210932 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1291
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
This paper proposes a theory of gazelle growth in which gazelles can either grow organically or by acquisitions. In the model, there are three types of firms: incumbent, target, and gazelle. We show that the lower cost of organic growth can increase the incentives for acquisition growth. The reason for this is that the incumbent understands that if it acquires the target firm, the gazelle will then invest organically anyway to grow, and therefore, the acquisition will not be sufficient to protect the incumbent's market power. The gazelle could then acquire the target firm at a good price. We also show that financial support for the organic growth of gazelles can increase gazelles' growth by acquisitions since incumbents' preemptive motives are reduced.
Subjects: 
Gazelles
Acquisitions
Organic growth
Entrepreneurial policy
Venture capital
Financial support
JEL: 
G24
G34
G38
L10
L26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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