• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.263-279
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• 2014

SPAC(Special Purpose Acquisition Company) is the paper company that aims the merger of private company only, and introduced in Korea at 2009. Until 2013, 22 SPACs were listed, and 10 of them made successful mergers but rest were delisted. When IPO, range of the volume of public offerings were 20~30 billion won. After IPO, some SPACs showed extreme price movements, but on average their prices were below IPO prices 1 year later and near IPO prices 2 years later. Successful SPACs showed positive and significant 2.94% 25 days Cumulative Average Abnormal Return(CAAR) before the public announcements of merger and also showed positive and significant 10.60% 45 days CAAR around the general meetings of shareholders. I concluded that SPAC market were constrained by several regulations, so deregulation is needed for SPAC market activation.

• Journal of Venture Innovation
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.113-131
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• 2023

Post-merger integration(PMI) plays a very important role in the success of M&A. Therefore, based on previous studies on PMI, this study discusses the relationship between communication of acquired enterprise members and uncertainty reduction, organizational satisfaction, organizational trust in the PMI process, focusing on the moderating effect of business area consistency between the acquisition and the acquired company. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, the hypothesis of the relationship between variables was established and an empirical analysis was conducted. In order to collect data, a survey was conducted on members of the acquired company in China, and 317 questionnaires were finally collected and used for empirical analysis. For the collected data, the research hypothesis was verified using SPSS 26.0. The results of the study confirmed that communication has a positive effect on the reduction of uncertainty, job satisfaction, and organizational trust perceived by members of the acquired company, and that the consistency in business areas between the acquisition and the acquired company weakens the relationship between communication and uncertainty. In the positive relationship between communication and job satisfaction, organizational trust, the effect of strengthening the moderating variable has not been confirmed, but rather the weakening control effect was found. Based on these findings, the strategy of communicating with the members of the acquired company in the PMI process is meaningful for the success or failure of the merger and provides theoretical and practical implications for proposing differentiated human resources management measures according to M&A type.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.51-69
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• 2020

Now, it is a stylized fact that a small number of technology firms such as Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and a few others have become larger and dominant players in an industry. Coupled with the rise of these leading firms, we have also observed that a large number of young firms have become an acquisition target in their early IPO stages. This indeed results in a sharp decline in the number of new entries in public exchanges although a series of policy reforms have been promulgated to foster competition through an increase in new entries. Given the observed industry trend in recent decades, a number of studies have reported increased concentration in most developed countries. However, it is less understood as to what caused an increase in industry concentration. In this paper, we uncover the mechanisms by which industries have become concentrated over the last decades by tracing the changes in industry concentration associated with a firm's status change in its early IPO stages. To this end, we put emphasis on the case in which firms are acquired shortly after they went public. Especially, with the transition to digital-based economies, it is imperative for incumbent firms to adapt and keep pace with new ICT and related intelligent systems. For instance, after the acquisition of a young firm equipped with AI-based solutions, an incumbent firm may better respond to a change in customer taste and preference by integrating acquired AI solutions and analytics skills into multiple business processes. Accordingly, it is not unusual for young ICT firms become an attractive acquisition target. To examine the role of M&As involved with young firms in reshaping the level of industry concentration, we identify a firm's status in early post-IPO stages over the sample periods spanning from 1990 to 2016 as follows: i) being delisted, ii) being standalone firms and iii) being acquired. According to our analysis, firms that have conducted IPO since 2000s have been acquired by incumbent firms at a relatively quicker time than those that did IPO in previous generations. We also show a greater acquisition rate for IPO firms in the ICT sector compared with their counterparts in other sectors. Our results based on multinomial logit models suggest that a large number of IPO firms have been acquired in their early post-IPO lives despite their financial soundness. Specifically, we show that IPO firms are likely to be acquired rather than be delisted due to financial distress in early IPO stages when they are more profitable, more mature or less leveraged. For those IPO firms with venture capital backup have also become an acquisition target more frequently. As a larger number of firms are acquired shortly after their IPO, our results show increased concentration. While providing limited evidence on the impact of large incumbent firms in explaining the change in industry concentration, our results show that the large firms' effect on industry concentration are pronounced in the ICT sector. This result possibly captures the current trend that a few tech giants such as Alphabet, Apple and Facebook continue to increase their market share. In addition, compared with the acquisitions of non-ICT firms, the concentration impact of IPO firms in early stages becomes larger when ICT firms are acquired as a target. Our study makes new contributions. To our best knowledge, this is one of a few studies that link a firm's post-IPO status to associated changes in industry concentration. Although some studies have addressed concentration issues, their primary focus was on market power or proprietary software. Contrast to earlier studies, we are able to uncover the mechanism by which industries have become concentrated by placing emphasis on M&As involving young IPO firms. Interestingly, the concentration impact of IPO firm acquisitions are magnified when a large incumbent firms are involved as an acquirer. This leads us to infer the underlying reasons as to why industries have become more concentrated with a favor of large firms in recent decades. Overall, our study sheds new light on the literature by providing a plausible explanation as to why industries have become concentrated.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.241-248
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• 2021

Firms have many ways to expand their businesses including M&A. Big companies in online and offline businesses show different ways of expansion with different objectives to expand their digital businesses quickly. Expansions for technical reasons are to acquire technologies they do not have while those for business reasons are M&A for offline companies to have competence in markets by acquiring online companies. Other ways of expansions include spin-off and group participation after investments for startups. Various ways of expansions are chosen because they are optimal choices depending on situations the companies face, and they have different strengths and weaknesses. To analyze the strengths and weaknesses of those options for expansion at this stage would be academically valuable, and also practically meaningful in terms of providing insights for companies' decision making in choosing opitions for expansions. M&A of online companies to make multi-channels by offline companies have risks of failing to internalize online companies and have enough synergy effects. Also, spin-off is a relatively less risky way of expansion while the speed of expansion is slower than establishing external startups with some shares of equity and making them as affiliated companies. External startups are good for speed of expansion while there are risks of legal regulations and negative awareness by the public.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.83-106
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• 2001

본 연구에서는 1997년 말 외환위기 이후 $1998\sim1999$년에 걸쳐 행하여진 한국 은행산업 구조 조정의 성과를 실증적으로 분석하였다. 실증분석의 결과 위험수준이 높아 구조조정 기간에 금융감독당국으로부터 강한 경영개선 압력을 받을 가능성이 높은 은행들은 무수익여신, 부실여신비율 등 대출행위의 건전성 측면과 대출, 유가증권간의 투자비율, 그리고 유가증권 내 자산종목 간의 투자 비율 등 여러 가지 위험관련 변수들과 관련하여 측정된 건전화에 대한 동기면에서 외환위기 이전에 비하여 유의적이고 일관된 보다 높은 건전화에 대한 동기를 가지고 있었음을 볼 수 있었으며, 이러한 결과는 외환위기 이후의 은행권 구조조정 정책에 대한 어느 정도의 유효성을 보여 주는 결과로 사료된다. 또한 은행 집단별 분석에서는 구조조정 과정에서 퇴출 또는 우량은행에게 인수/합병된 부실은행들은 구조조정 이전의 기간에 그 외의 은행들 보다 위험추구에 대한 동기가 매우 강하였음을 볼 수 있었으나 이러한 위험추구의 동기가 우량은행에로의 인수/합병을 통하면서 상당히 감소하였음을 발견할 수 있었으며, 이러한 결과는 총표본에 대한 분석에서의 결과와 일관되게 외환위기 이후의 구조조정 정책에 대한 어느 정도의 유효성을 보여 주는 결과로 사료된다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.245-252
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of mergers and acquisitions of domestic IT companies on strategic aspects of internal capacity enhancement. Empirical analysis applied to this study analyzed the business performance in the market through the merger of Daum Communications and Kakao Group. After Daum pursued the merger with Kakao, it showed that the platform business of kakao is expanding to the domain of the existing portal site. The merger was completed, and the total value of the stocks went up to the highest level, but soon its value declined. The merger shows that the growth potential of the enterprise is temporarily declining, which seems to be the internal cost of the merger. Even in the case of profitability, the merger did not show positive results. In the case of stability, the expectation due to the merger was reflected and slightly increased. The following two companies were interested in the kakao when they viewed the merger through a chronological analysis. However, after the merger, the interest of the next kakao was similar. This is seen as a result of the expansion of kakao's diverse platform business rather than the following search sites. From the results of this study, it is suggested that domestic IT companies should approach by analyzing the strategic factors that generate synergy when pursuing M & A to strengthen their resources or capabilities.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Studies
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.269-287
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• 2000

본 연구에서는 미국 상장은행의 자산 부채포오트폴리오 구성의 위험분산(risk diversification)과 도덕적해이(moral hazard)에 관한 실증적 분석을 행하였다. 실증적 분석의 결과 은행의 금기(今期)의 위험분산과 금기(今期) 이후의 위험추구 간에는 유의적인 양(陽)의 관계가 있음을 발견하였다. 즉 위험분산의 정도가 커서 투자가들로부터 파산가능성이 낮을 것으로 여겨지며, 따라서 위험증가에 따른 자본조달비용(예금이자율)의 증가라는 시장에서의 억제기능(market discipline)이 효과적으로 부과되지 못하는 은행들은 이러한 이점들을(특히 시장관련-체계적) 위험성이 높은 정책을 추구함으로써 수익을 증가시키려는 도덕적해이의 동기를 가지고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 선행연구에서의 논리대로 은행규모의 대형화가 자산 부채포오트폴리오 구성의 위험분산을 크게 하는 주요한 원인 중의 하나라면, 본 연구에서의 결과는 은행산업의 불건전한 재무구조와 그로 인한 금융질서의 혼란, 나아가 국가경제 전체의 혼란을 겪고 있는 한국 금융산업의 현주소, 즉 부실은행을 퇴출시키고 인수 합병에 의한 대형선도 은행(leading banks)중심으로 은행산업을 재편하는 한국금융산업의 구조조정에 있어 간과되어서는 안 될 중요한 정책적 시사점을 제시해 주고 있다고 하겠다. 즉 도덕적해이의 감소에 대한 제도적인 유인장치가 없는 단순한 인수 합병에 의한 은행의 자산규모의 증가가 반드시 은행산업의 구조적 안정에 기여할 것이라고 기대할 수는 없을 것이다. 대형은행의 자산 부채포오트폴리오 구성의 위험분산의 이점과 이로 인한 투자가들의 대형은행의 위험추구행위에 대한 감시동기의 부족, 이로 인한 도덕적해이가 필연적으로 발생하는 현상이라면, 도덕적해이의 감소에 대한 추가적인 유인책 없는 단순한 자산규모의 증가는 인수 합병을 통하여 탄생한 대형선도 은행들의 또 다른 도덕적해이를 낳을 가능성이 크기 때문이다.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.387-398
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• 2001

Effectively integrating information systems in mergers and acquisitions of large organizations can be critical to merger success. But the general literature on M&A focuses on the financial aspects of the acquisition process, rather than on the subsequent process of integration. This paper analyses the case of information systems integration in a merger of two Korean manufacturing organizations, and explores the factors influencing IS integration in M&A in Korea. To analysis this case and find factors affecting IS integration success, we use MIT'90s schema (framework) by Scott Morton that consists of 5 dimensions (strategy, processes, structure, individuals/roles, and technology). From the results of this case study, we found 13 factors and 14 propositions influencing IS integrations performance in M&A in Korean companies. This research helps the company to avoid mistakes and to manage IS integration in M&A. Also this study provides guide line for further researches.

• Digital Contents
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• no.10 s.137
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• pp.52-55
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• 2004

휴대폰 단말기 시장이 소용돌이에 휩싸이면서 방향성을 상실, 한국경제의 버팀목 역할에 적신호가 들어왔다. 올 들어 휴대폰 시장은 중견단말기업체 부도 및 법정관리→기업 인수합병(M&A) 논의 부상→구조조정 과정에서 중국업체 복병 등장→첨단 휴대폰 기술 유출 논쟁→SK텔레콤과 삼성전자간 주도권 싸움→SK텔레콤의 시장지배력 단말기 시장으로 전이 문제(겸업문제)→정보통신부 겸업금지 법 개정 검토→제조업체의 통신서비스 시장 진출과의 형평성 논란→제2차 SK텔레콤과 삼성전자 주도권 경쟁 전망 등으로 지속적으로 꼬리에 꼬리를 물고 연쇄적인 파열음을 내고 있다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.4-9
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• 2011

IT산업은 우리 경제 성장에 큰 역할을 해왔다. 최근 세계경기가 위축되면서 IT산업에 대한 기대가 다시 커졌다. 그러나 IT 환경 변화로 세계시장 구조, 혁신 원천, 경쟁 양상이 급변하고 있다. 즉, 융합 시장이 커지고 SW기업이 시장을 주도한다. 기업 간 인수합병(M&A)과 특허분쟁도 빈발한다. 우리는 이런 변화에 적극 대응하며 다양한 성과를 냈다. 하지만 융합이 초기단계이고 SW 경쟁력이 여전히 취약하다. 2012년 IT산업은 그간 쌓아온 역량을 토대로 글로벌 입지를 더 넓혀야 한다. 이를 위해 IT산업 정책은 IT융합 확산, SW 경쟁력 확보, 선제적 미래 준비에 초점을 두고 추진할 계획이다.