On acculturation in business mergers: Empirical findings from a commercial bank's opinion survey in Taiwan

Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 141-166

  Yen, Gili ^a   Liao, Nelson N H ^a  

^a CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Business merger; Company wide opinion survey; Employees' working attitudes; Organizational culture

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; BANKING; MERGER;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0142259735     PISSN: 02190915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219091503001079     Document Type: Article

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