Managing Mergers Across Borders: A Two-Nation Exploration of a Nationally Bound Administrative Heritage

Organization Science

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 670-684

  Lubatkin, Michael ^a,b   Calori, Roland ^b   Very, Philippe ^b   Veiga, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Administrative heritage; Cross cultural; Mergers; Universalist perspective

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032268242     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.9.6.670     Document Type: Article

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