The Social Side of Mergers and Acquisitions Cooperation relationships after mergers and acquisitions /

• Main Author: Frensch, Florian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : DUV, 2007.
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Industrial management.; Business and Management.; Innovation/Technology Management.

Mergers and acquisitions often fail to generate the expected value. One of the main reasons for such failures is a lack of cooperation among employees which prevents the expected formation of synergies. Florian Frensch investigates which individual characteristics of employees and which dyadic facto...

Table of Contents:

• Executive summary
• Summary of content
• and formulation of research questions
• Theoretical model
• Empirical investigation
• Empirical study at the first research site: SpecMatCo
• Empirical study at the second research site: SoftCo
• Discussion of results for research question “Who cooperates?”
• Discussion of results for research question “Who cooperates with whom?”
• Implications for practitioners
• Academic contribution and implications for further research.