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King et al. (2019), Human Resource Management

What, when, and who: Manager involvement in predicting employee resistance to acquisition integration

In a cross-sectional survey of managers at Chinese acquirers, slower task integration was associated with less employee resistance, and resistance was lower when middle managers were involved in slow human integration and top managers in fast task integration.

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