Managing the post-acquisition integration process: How the human integration and task integration processes interact to foster value creation

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 394-425

  Birkinshaw, Julian ^a   Bresman, Henrik ^a   Håkanson, Lars ^a  

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