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| Tekijä: | Handles, S. |
| Otsikko: | Complex Systems Applied? The Merger that made Glaxo SmithKline |
| Lehti: | Technology analysis & strategic management
2002 : SEP, VOL. 14:3, p. 331-354 |
| Asiasana: | SYSTEMS ANALYSIS MERGERS MANAGEMENT ANALYTICAL REVIEW |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | With reference to the Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) case, and more widely, this paper asks 'what's going on?' when two separate corporations choose to combine their organizational and administrative facilities to pursue asserted shared corporate goals through merger. The paper explores whether complex systems thinking can help to capture and represent the interactions that occur across different classes of agent involved in the extended merger process. It is therefore explicitly concerned with the application of complex systems in socio-economic contexts as opposed to physical or natural systems. The paper argues that in order to understand the merger phenomenon, it is important to disentangle the revealed rationality of different classes of economic agent- operating across the corporate sector. |
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