Culture Clashes: How they Sabotage Mergers

Allan Kennedy and Terrence Deal

Although substantial cost reductions may be a primary justification for mergers, they are not among the most important effects.

Culture Clashes How They Sabotage Mergers

Once the dust has settled on the merger of two groups of people, the real work of integration begins and inevitably poses more problems than the architects of the deal ever envisioned.  Two of the world's most eminent authorities on corporate culture describe the kinds of pressures that combining different cultures bring, with lessons on how to manage this inevitable clash

Terrence DealandAllan Kennedy

Although substantial cost reductions may be a primary justification for mergers, they are not among the most important effects. Mergers affect cultural patterns. They do so in...

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