M&A between giants: The fastest way to dominate the world economy

Foresight

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 228-239

  Caiazza, Rosa ^a   Hsieh, William ^b   Tiwari, Mayank ^c   Topf, Dror ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b ACCENTURE   (United States)

^c BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisitions and mergers, Oil industry; ExxonMobil; M A

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879974145     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/fs-01-2012-0003     Document Type: Article

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