The phrase "acquisitions instead of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two options or choices, indicating a preference for one over the other.
Example: "The company decided to focus on internal development and pursue innovations through acquisitions instead of relying solely on external partnerships."
Alternatives: "purchases rather than" or "procurements in place of".
To build the position of core businesses in existing geographic markets, managers should use acquisitions instead of alliances.
In the few instances in which companies have tried to use acquisitions instead of alliances to diversify abroad, they have had trouble withstanding the financial and operational strain.
Chief executives are being punished for splurging in the boom years on projects and acquisitions instead of rewarding shareholders more generously, and investors are calling for Rio Tinto and BHP to rethink their policies.
But Topp is understood to have called an emergency board meeting this month after some of the proceeds from the sale of BHS's property went to the consortium of owners – known as Retail Acquisitions – instead of the struggling retailer itself.
He said that the group, led by £1.2m-a-year chief executive Peter Marks until last year, had been obsessed with making large acquisitions instead of competing in the cut-throat world of grocery retailing, which is its main business.
Perhaps Benioff - along with his advisers - decided he wanted cash to spend on acquisitions instead of buildings.
It can drive founders to seek an easy acquisition instead of a quest for true innovation and a sustainable, profitable business — a truly entrepreneurial challenge.
Frey et al. [32] suggests that the use of a phantom tomographic acquisition, instead of a planar scan of a small source, is the optimal approach.
For SPECT calibration, acquisition of a static planar acquisition instead of a whole-body scan would eliminate another potential source of variation, bed speed variability.
