Surviving Post-merger ‘Culture Clash’: Can Cultural Leadership Lessen the Casualties?

Leadership

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 395-426

  Bligh, Michelle C ^a  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

culture; integration; leadership; merger acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990350794     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715006068937     Document Type: Article

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