Cultural Dimensions of International Mergers and Acquisitions

Martine Cardel Gertsen, Anne-Marie Søderberg, Jens Erik Torp, Martine Cardel Gertsen, Anne-Marie Søderberg, Jens Erik Torp

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9783110158007
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110808797
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

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Table of contents

• Overview of the Book
• International Mergers and Acquisitions: The Issues and Challenges
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Cultural Lens
• 3 Research Implications: The Way Forward
• 4 Summary
• References
• Different Approaches to the Understanding of Culture in Mergers and Acquisitions
• 1 An Increased Focus on Culture
• 2 Different Concepts of Culture
• 2.1 The Classic Concept of Culture
• 2.2 The Social Constructivist Concept of Culture
• 3 Concluding Remarks
• References
• Cultural Awareness and National versus Corporate Barriers to Acculturation
• 1 Cultural Clashes and Acculturation in M&A Research
• 2 Cross-cultural Aspects of International M&A
• 3 Methodology
• 4 Results
• 5 Discussion: Cultural Awareness and Communication
• 6 Conclusions
• Notes
• References
• Managing Cultural Differences in Cross-cultural Mergers and Acquisitions
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Assumptions
• 3 Measuring Cultural Differences in (International) M&A – Introduction
• 4 Implications of Cultural Differences in International M&A
• 5 Evaluating Cultural Differences
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Results of the Empirical Study
• 5.3 Conclusions of the Empirical Study
• 6 Managing Cultural Differences
• 7 Summary and Conclusions
• Notes
• References
• A Cross-national Assessment of Acculturative Stress in Recent European Mergers
• 1 Determinants of Acculturative Stress and Attraction
• 1.1 Nations and National Culture
• 1.2 Organizational Culture, Social Movements, and Procedural Justice
• 2 Performance Implications of Acculturation Stress
• 3 Methodology
• 3.1 Data
• 3.2 Measures
• 3.3 Other Influences on Performance
• 3.4 Interrater Reliability
• 4 Results
• 5 Discussion and Conclusion
• Appendix
• Notes
• References
• Leadership and Culture in Transnational Strategic Alliances
• 1 Strategic Leadership and Organizational Culture
• 1.1 National Culture as a Central Determinant of Strategic Leadership Type
• 2 Strategic Motives and Implementation in Transnational Alliances
• 2.1 Merger Motives
• 2.2 Implementation of Transnational Mergers
• 3 The Acculturation Continuum: A Dynamic Process
• 3.1 Acculturation Options in Transnational Alliances
• 3.2 The Dynamic Acculturation Continuum
• 4 Conclusion and Future Directions
• References
• Hungarian Culture and Management Issues within Foreign-owned Hungarian Production Companies
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Cultural Theory and Enterprise Transitions
• 2.1 Meanings of “Culture”
• 2.2 Applicability
• 2.3 “Organizational Culture” versus “National Culture”
• 3 Method for Identifying Possible “Cultural Dysjunctures”
• 4 Company Issues from Empirical Research
• 5 Establishing Degrees of “Cultural Loading”
• 6 Summary
• References
• A Quest for Social Identity – The Pragmatics of Communication in Mergers and Acquisitions
• 1 Introduction
• 2 A Quest for Identity
• 3 Communication: The Creation of Identities
• 4 Conversations: Two Studies
• 4.1 Swedish Ordnance
• 4.2 Brooks
• 5 Discussion and Comparison
• Notes
• References
• Foreign Acquisitions in Denmark: Cultural and Communicative Dimensions
• 1 Foreign Acquisitions in Denmark
• 2 Approaches to Cultural Analysis
• 3 National Differences: Empirical Findings
• 4 Organizational Differences: Empirical Findings
• 5 The Integration Process as a Communication Process
• 6 Perspectives: Developing Communicative and Intercultural Competence
• Notes
• References
• List of Contributors
• Index