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Merging Professional Service Firms

Year: 2000

Type: article

Abstract: Accountants, lawyers, consultants and advertising agents have all been merging as their clients demand global and diversified services from their professional advisors. This article reports on a three‐year study of three such mergers. Notwithstanding the widespread belief that business now moves @ the speed of thought, the author concludes that, in most cases, managers should allow the process of integration to evolve gradually. However, this does not mean doing nothing: she identifies eight ways in which managers can facilitate the process.

Source: London Business School Review

DOI: 10.1111/1467-8616.00136

Author: Laura Empson

Institution: University of Oxford

Language: English

Topic: Corporate Finance and Governance

Subfield: Accounting

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2092834006

FWCI: 1.565

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Cited by: 54

Related to: 10