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  title info:
    title: Mergers and acquisitions
    sub title: the human factor
  title info:
    title: Mergers & acquisitions
  name:
    name part: Cartwright, Susan
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Cooper, Cary L.
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: Boston
    publisher: Butterworth Heinemann
    date issued: 1992
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Mergers and Acquisitions: The Human Factor focuses on the influence of human factor in the realization of mergers and acquisitions. The book first tackles the importance for managers to understand mergers and acquisitions, merger phenomenon, and the impact of mergers and acquisitions on organizational performance. Discussions focus on traditional approaches to merger and merger failure, assessing merger gains, growth in merger and acquisition activity, and merger motives. The text then elaborates on the effect of merger process to employees and organizational culture and its assessment. Topics include organizational culture and the individual, how to assess organizational culture, types and origins of organizational culture, transactional differences between mergers and acquisitions, and absolute truths about mergers and acquisitions. The manuscript examines the implications of cultural type for inter-organizational combinations, including cultural compatibility, cultural dynamics of organizational combinations, and the application of the cultural dynamics model to collaborative and organizational marriages. The text is a dependable source of data for researchers interested in the factors involved in mergers and acquisitions.
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  note: Sue Cartwright and Cary L. Cooper.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Consolidation and merger of corporations
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Corporate culture
  subject:
    topic: Organizational Culture
  subject:
    topic: Entreprises
    topic: Fusion
    topic: Gestion
  subject:
    topic: Culture organisationnelle
  subject:
    topic: Consolidation and merger of corporations
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Corporate culture
  subject:
    topic: Fusion
  subject:
    topic: Gemeinschaftsunternehmen
  subject:
    topic: Mergers and Acquisitions
  subject:
    topic: Unternehmenskauf
  subject:
    topic: Unternehmenszusammenschluss
  subject:
    topic: Entreprises
    topic: Fusion d'entreprises
  subject:
    topic: Culture d'entreprise
  subject:
    topic: Business
    topic: Mergers
  classification: HD58.8 .C3634 1992
  classification: 658.1/6
  classification: 85.50
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    title info:
      title: Mergers and acquisitions
    name:
      name part: Cartwright, Susan, 1951-
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth Heinemann, 1992
    identifier: (DLC) 92148427
    identifier: (OCoLC)26054371
  identifier: 9780750601443
  identifier: 0750601442
  identifier: 9781483102795
  identifier: 1483102793
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  record info:
    record content source: OCLCE
    record creation date: 100809
    record change date: 20260326183418.6
    record identifier: in00005745617
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng