Cross-border post-acquisition knowledge transfer among construction consultants

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 421-427

  Bröchner, Jan ^a   Rosander, Sara ^b   Waara, Fredrik ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acquisitions; Culture; Engineering; Knowledge transfer; Professional services

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

CONSTRUCTION SECTORS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; TRANSFER MECHANISMS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; KNOWLEDGE;

EID: 17944393575     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0144619042000240003     Document Type: Article

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