Who buys whom: Information environments and organizational boundary spanning through acquisitions

Strategic Organization

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 111-133

  Schildt, Henri A ^a   Laamanen, Tomi ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

acquisition; alliance; boundary spanning; local search

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993725146     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127006064065     Document Type: Article

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