Preservation and dissolution of the target firm's embedded ties in acquisitions

Organization Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1169-1196

  Spedale, Simona ^a   Van Den Bosch, Frans A J ^b,c   Volberda, Henk W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acquisitions; Embedded tie dynamics; Embedded ties

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250815646     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840607075672     Document Type: Article

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