INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTEGRATION DURING MERGERS: INTEGRATION MODES TYPOLOGY AND INTEGRATION PATHS

Gérald Brunetto

2007

Abstract

Today Information Systems (IS) integration constitutes one of the major success factors of mergers and acquisitions. This article draws on two case studies of firms having realized more than 10 mergers and acquisitions between 1990 and 2000. This paper shows the importance of carrying out an approach to understand IS integration process. This approach represents the necessity of using organizational configuration to define possible IS integration modes. Thus we show the importance of organizational, strategic and technological contingencies within the elaboration of integration mode.

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Brunetto G. (2007). INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTEGRATION DURING MERGERS: INTEGRATION MODES TYPOLOGY AND INTEGRATION PATHS . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-88-7, pages 71-77. DOI: 10.5220/0002348900710077


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Gérald Brunetto},
title={INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTEGRATION DURING MERGERS: INTEGRATION MODES TYPOLOGY AND INTEGRATION PATHS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={71-77},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002348900710077},
isbn={978-972-8865-88-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTEGRATION DURING MERGERS: INTEGRATION MODES TYPOLOGY AND INTEGRATION PATHS
SN - 978-972-8865-88-7
AU - Brunetto G.
PY - 2007
SP - 71
EP - 77
DO - 10.5220/0002348900710077