Acquisition IT Integration: The Roles of Temporary Agency Workers

Stefan Henningsson; Christian Øhrgaard

doi:10.18151/7217354

Acquisition IT Integration: The Roles of Temporary Agency Workers

Stefan Henningsson, Christian Øhrgaard

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Abstract

The IT integration of acquisitions consists an important challenge for the many acquiring organizations. Complementing existing research, this paper searches for explanation to differences in acquirers’ abilities for acquisition IT integration in the external of the acquirer, by a study of the use of temporary agency workers. Following an analytic induction approach, theoretically grounded in the re-source-based view of the firm, we identify the complimentary and supplementary roles consultants can assume in acquisition IT integration. Through case studies of three acquirers, we investigate how the acquirers appropriate the use of agency workers as part of its acquisition strategy. For the investigated acquirers, assigning roles to agency workers is contingent on balancing the needs of knowledge induction and knowledge retention, as well as experience richness and in-depth under-standing. Composition of the acquisition IT integration team should consider the balance of these, in practice, commonly mutually excluding needs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ECIS 2015 Proceedings
Editors	Jörg Becker, Jan vom Brocke, Marco De Marco
Number of pages	15
Place of Publication	Atlanta, GA
Publisher	Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Publication date	2015
Article number	76
ISBN (Print)	9783000502842
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18151/7217354
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	The 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2015 - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany Duration: 26 May 2015 → 29 May 2015 Conference number: 23 http://www.ecis2015.eu/

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Conference	The 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2015
Number	23
Location	Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Münster
Period	26/05/2015 → 29/05/2015
Internet address	http://www.ecis2015.eu/

Series	Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems
ISSN	0000-0034

Keywords

Acquisition
Merger
IT integration
Agency worker
Consultants

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Henningsson, S & Øhrgaard, C 2015, Acquisition IT Integration: The Roles of Temporary Agency Workers. in J Becker, J vom Brocke & M De Marco (eds), ECIS 2015 Proceedings., 76, Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), Atlanta, GA, Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems, The 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2015, Münster, Germany, 26/05/2015. https://doi.org/10.18151/7217354

Acquisition IT Integration: The Roles of Temporary Agency Workers. / Henningsson, Stefan; Øhrgaard, Christian.
ECIS 2015 Proceedings. ed. / Jörg Becker; Jan vom Brocke; Marco De Marco. Atlanta, GA: Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), 2015. 76 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems).

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