Anatomy of a merger: behavior of organizational factors and processes throughout the pre- during- post- stages (part 2)

Management Decision

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 674-684

  Appelbaum, Steven H ^a   Gandell, Joy ^a   Shapiro, Barbara T ^a   Belisle, Pierre ^b   Hoeven, Eugene ^c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b Gouvernement du Quebec   (Canada)

^c Safety and Fight Operations IATA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Management; Mergers and acquisitions; Strategy; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986079050     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740010360579     Document Type: Review

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