A bird in the hand or two in the bush? Integration trade-offs in technology-grafting acquisitions

European Management Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 179-184

  Puranam, Phanish ^a   Singh, Harbir ^b   Zollo, Maurizio ^c  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Organizational integration; Product development; Technology acquisitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037380020     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-2373(03)00012-4     Document Type: Article

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