Mergers and acquisitions in the telecommunications industry

Growth and Change

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 321-344

  Warf, Barney ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMY OF SCALE; MERGER; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; OLIGOPOLY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141890773     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2257.00221     Document Type: Article

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