Partnerships between software firms: Is there value from complementarities?

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gao, Lucia S ^a   Iyer, Bala ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL RETURNS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SYSTEM SCIENCES;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 51449100414     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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