Acquisition of a High performing team as an alternative in the inorganic growth strategy
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https://doi.org/10.24215/23143738e001Keywords:
Acquisition of high performing team; Growth strategies; Inorganic growth; Organic growth.Abstract
In this paper, we analyze the acquisition of High-Performing Team (HPT) as an alternative of inorganic corporate growth. This work consists in a theorical reflection from a real-life business situation that took place in 2006, where a HPT working for a private banking company in the US was hired by a competitor. For this, various corporate growth strategies are discussed, organic and inorganic, and then the hiring of a high performing team (HPT) as an additional alternative of inorganic corporate growth. The arguments are based in five important aspects of an inorganic growth strategy: brand, legal issues, industry traits, cultural aspects and costs.
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