National and corporate cultural fit in mergers/acquisitions: An exploratory study

Management Science

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1215-1227

  Weber, Yaakov ^a   Shenkar, Oded ^a   Raveh, Adi ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Co plot; Corporate Cultural; Graphic Display; International and Domestics Mergers and Acquisitions; National Culture; Top Management Behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040045762     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.42.8.1215     Document Type: Article

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