Integration managers' value-capturing roles and acquisition performance

Human Resource Management

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 651-683

  Teerikangas, Satu ^a   Véry, Philippe ^b   Pisano, Vincenzo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EDHEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Acquisition performance; Acquisition process; Integration manager; M A; M A performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053434966     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20453     Document Type: Article

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