Corporate mergers and the problems of IS integration

Information and Management

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 203-213

  Stylianou, Antonis C ^a   Jeffries, Carol J ^a,b   Robbins, Stephanie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisitions; Mergers; Systems integration

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL; PLANNING;

CORPORATE MERGERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0030350353     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7206(96)01082-8     Document Type: Article

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