Acquisition of physician group practices by for-profit and not-for-profit organizations

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 465-490

  Burns, Lawton R ^a   DeGraaff, Robert A ^a   Singh, Harbir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Physician groups; Resource based view; Target attributes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033473850     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1062-9769(99)00034-4     Document Type: Article

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