The impact of post-merger integration on the customer-supplier relationship

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 335-345

  Kato, Junichi ^a   Schoenberg, Richard ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Customer relationship; Mergers and acquisitions; Post merger integration; Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897619607     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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