Spillovers across organizational architectures: The role of prior resource allocation and communication in post-acquisition coordination outcomes

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 710-733

  Agarwal, Rajshree ^a   Anand, Jaideep ^b   Bercovitz, Janet ^c   Croson, Rachel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral uncertainty and coordination; experiments; organizational architecture and design; post acquisition performance; strategic alliances

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL UNCERTAINTY AND COORDINATION; ECONOMIC GAME THEORY; ORGANIZATION DESIGN; ORGANIZATIONAL ARCHITECTURE; POST-ACQUISITION PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION DECISION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRATEGIC ALLIANCE;

ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNICATION; DESIGN; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; GAME THEORY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 84859723341     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.1965     Document Type: Article

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