Mergers and acquisitions in the software industry: Research results in the area of success determinants

Business and Information Systems Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 421-431

  Schief, Markus ^a   Buxmann, Peter ^a   Schiereck, Dirk ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Literature review; M A; Merger; Software industry; State of the art

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027958334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18670202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12599-013-0293-1     Document Type: Article

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