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No D/953: The importance of technology in the consolidation of hospital markets. The case of the United States
Nuria Mas () and Giovanni Valentini
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Nuria Mas: IESE Business School, Postal: Research Division, Av Pearson 21, 08034 Barcelona, SPAIN
Giovanni Valentini: Bocconi University
Abstract: Over the last years, technology has become a key element of competition in the hospital market. At the same time, this market in the US has experienced an enormous merger activity. In this study, we analyze the role that technology can play in this consolidation wave by focusing on how it can affect a hospital´s selection of a particular target. We analyze the selection of targets in mergers that took place in the US hospital market between 1985 and 2000. Our results show that technology is an important element for the competition in the hospital market and, as such, it plays a relevant role also in M&A strategies. We find that hospitals are more likely to choose targets that complement their technological holding, specifically when these are complex technologies and with favorable cost/benefits ratios. With this, the merged entity tends to become closer to a one-stop-shop hospital.
Keywords: hospital; technology; merger; acquisition; complexity
30 pages, March 7, 2012
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