Bilateral resource redeployment and capabilities improvement following horizontal acquisitions

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 453-483

  Capron, Laurence ^a   Mitchell, Will ^b  

^a INSEAD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0000784093     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/7.3.453     Document Type: Article

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