Network effects and the creation of shareholders' wealth in the context of software firm mergers and acquisitions

Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Information Systems, Information Systems in a Rapidly Changing Economy, ECIS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Léger, Pierre Majorique ^a   Yang, Shinkyu ^b  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL RETURNS; BUSINESS COMBINATION; ECONOMIC NETWORKS; FINANCIAL MARKET; NETWORK EFFECTS; PRODUCT PORTFOLIOS; SOFTWARE FIRMS; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; WEALTH CREATION;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; SHAREHOLDERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871026452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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