Web 2.0 Environmental scanning and adaptive decision support for business mergers and acquisitions

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Lau, Raymond Y K ^a   Liao, Stephen S Y ^a   Wong, K F ^b   Chiu, Dickson K W ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Business intelligence; Business relation mining; Domain specific sentiment analysis; Evolutionary learning; Mergers and acquisitions; Statistical learning; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SHAREHOLDERS;

BUSINESS RELATION MININGS; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY LEARNING; STATISTICAL LEARNING; WEB 2.0;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 84868021575     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/41703506     Document Type: Article

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