Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Mergers and Acquisitions: The Human Factor; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction: the importance for managers to understand mergers and acquisitions; Part One: Overview; Chapter 2. The merger phenomenon; The recent growth in merger and acquisition activity; The merger climate; Merger motives; Chapter 3. The impact of mergers and acquisitions on organizational performance; Assessing merger gains; Traditional approaches to merger and merger failure; The inadequacies of the rational-economic model; Chapter 4. The merger process
  • what happens to people
  • Transactional differences between mergers and acquisitionsAbsolute truths about mergers and acquisitions; Part Two: The Effect of Organizational Culture; Chapter 5. Organizational culture and its assessment; The origins of organizational culture; What exactly is organizational culture?; Organizational culture and the individual; Types of organizational culture; How to assess organizational culture; Chapter 6. The implications of cultural type for inter-organizational combinations; Cultural compatibility; The relationship between culture types
  • The cultural dynamics of organizational combinationsApplying the cultural dynamics model to traditional marriages; Applying the cultural dynamics model to collaborative marriages; The basic ingredients for a successful organizational marriage; Part Three: Stages of Merger and Acquisition; Chapter 7. The pre-combination or courtship stage; Information-gathering; Style of negotiations; Personnel functions; Clarifying marriage contract; Re-examining M & A decisions; Chapter 8. The legal announcement of marriage; Matters of style and content
  • Chapter 9. The honeymoon period
  • making the marriage workChanging the cultures; Dealing with other aspects and employee concerns; Job security; Chapter 10. Establishing marital allegiance
  • monitoring the success of the marriage; Continuing to keep in touch; Recognizing the warning signs; A successful acquisition integration programme; The way forward; Appendix 1: Case Study 1: the Fast Car acquisitions; Appendix 2: Case Study 2: the acquisition of Fill-it Packaging; Appendix 3: Case Study 3: the Age-Nouvelle merger; Appendix 4: Case Study 4: the Gable-Apex merger; Index