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For example, see Anne B. Fisher, “The Decade’s Worst Mergers,” Fortune, April 30, 1984, 262–270.
David R. King et al., “Meta-Analyses of Post-Acquisition Performance: Indicators of Unidentified Moderators,” Strategic Management Journal 25 (2004): 187–200.
Charles O’Reilly, “Cisco Systems: The Acquisition of Technology Is the Acquisition of People,” Case HR-10 (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1998).
Julie Creswell, “When Bad Mergers Happen to Good Firms,” Fortune, May 1, 2000, 46.
Founder and CEO of one of Siebel’s failed acquisitions, e-mail to Jeffrey Pfeffer, August 2005.
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