New Integration Strategies for Post-Acquisition Management

Long Range Planning

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 235-251

  Angwin, Duncan N ^a,b   Meadows, Maureen ^c  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INTEGRATION;

ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT; ACQUISITION STRATEGIES; EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION; FINE GRAINED; INTEGRATION STRATEGY; MIXED METHOD; MULTIPLE CLUSTERS; POST-ACQUISITION INTEGRATIONS;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 84930817852     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: 18731872     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2014.04.001     Document Type: Article

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