Are Customers And Suppliers Part(Icipants) Of A Merger Or An Acquisition? : A Literature Review
Published 1 January 2003
Helén Anderson, Havila, Johan Holtström
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In literature dealing with mergers and acquisitions (M&As) the implicit assumption is that through a merger or an acquisition a company can get access also to the target company’s customers and suppliers. But whether in reality it does that or not, has to do with how the customers and suppliers act or react towards the acquisition/merger. The purpose with this
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