Global Ambitions and Local Identities
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Global Ambitions and Local Identities

An Israeli-American High-Tech Merger

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Global Ambitions and Local Identities

An Israeli-American High-Tech Merger

About this book

Until recently, international mergers of companies have been seen as purely financial ventures without any concern for what they meant for the people involved. However, attitudes are gradually changing. This study of a successful Israeli high-tech company's merger with an American competitor offers an important contribution to a better understanding of the social and personal ramifications of mergers. Based upon in-depth fieldwork, the book explores the reality behind the statistics, balance sheets, and managerial prescriptions that are the focus of most studies of international mergers and acquisitions. Offering a richly detailed description of everyday work life, the author reveals the dramas of identity that unfold as a consequence of the company's attempts to redefine the boundaries of the organizational collective by adding to it people from another country. The book debunks many myths used to support arguments both for and against globalization and offers instead an in-depth depiction and a grounded assessment of its everyday realities.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9781845451943
eBook ISBN
9781782389316
Edition
1
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Economic Theory
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. GLOBAL AMBITIONS AND LOCAL IDENTITIES
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. CHAPTER 1. Introduction
  5. CHAPTER 2. Setting
  6. PART I. The Merger at Work: Enacting a Separate Organizational Identity in Everyday Life
  7. CHAPTER 3. Identity and Communication Events
  8. CHAPTER 4. Identity and Representation
  9. PART II. The Merger and the Worker: Aligning Identities, Centering Selves
  10. CHAPTER 5. Israeli Identity
  11. CHAPTER 6. Work Identities
  12. CHAPTER 7. Conclusion
  13. Notes
  14. References
  15. Index