Designing a comprehensive model of acquisition and merger of knowledge-based and start-up companies

The comprehensive model of acquisition and merger is the process of combination and merging companies. Acquisition and merger create a stable competitive advantage, and this is when there is an incompatibility between the resources, capabilities and opportunities to the two companies. Resources include marketing excellence, distribution network, R&D, and excess operational capacity. Acquisition and merger in the case of public limited companies is done by purchasing and transferring ownership of a significant portion of a company's shares to another legal entity.

The type of present study is a survey and applied Study. The statistical population of this study includes experts familiar with knowledge-based and start-up companies and informed about the concepts of acquisition and merger, of which 10 experts were identified and considered as the statistical sample of the research. The data collection tool is an expert questionnaire and pairwise comparisons.

According to the studies, 5 components include creativity and innovation, Technology, Professionalism, Empowerment and organizational behavior have been identified as the main dimensions in the design of this model. Based on the results, it was found that all of these components had a significant effect on the pattern of acquisition and merger.

According to the research findings, it can be concluded that among the factors of acquisition and merger, creativity, innovation and technology has had the greatest impact on the formation of the pattern of acquisition and merger.Keywords: Acquisition and Merger Pattern, Knowledge-Based and Start-up Companies, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Fuzzy Dimtel Method