Mergers and acquisitions in aviation - Management and economic perspectives on the size of airlines

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 853-862

  Merkert, Rico ^a   Morrell, Peter S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Finance; Mergers and acquisitions; Productivity; Size of firms

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRLINE INDUSTRY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; LITERATURE REVIEW; MERGER; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84858240929     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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