Go (Con)figure: Subgroups, Imbalance, and Isolates in Geographically Dispersed Teams

Authors:
Michael Boyer O'Leary;Mark Mortensen
Affiliations:
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057;Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
Venue:
Organization Science
Year:
2010

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This paper challenges the predominant view that legitimation is merely a specific phase in merger or acquisition processes. We argue that a better understanding of postmerger organizational dynamics calls for conceptualization of discursive legitimation ...