Anatomy of a merger: behavior of organizational factors and processes throughout the pre- during- post-stages (part 1)

Management Decision

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 649-662

  Appelbaum, Steven H ^a   Gandell, Joy ^a   Yortis, Harry ^b   Proper, Shay ^c   Jobin, Francois ^d  

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

^b HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c Montreal Stock Exchange   (Canada)

^d Kruger Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Managers; Mergers and acquisitions; Organizational behaviour; Process efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986146043     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740010357267     Document Type: Article

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