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Designing merger agreements to ease merger integration

✍ Scribed by Sascha L. Schmidt; Robert Urlichs; Ansgar Richter

Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
196 KB
Volume
28
Category
Article
ISSN
1932-2054

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Many mergers fail as a result of difficulties in the integration phase. Such problems can arise when the corporate strategy concept of the merged firm does not build in a meaningful way on the actual corporate strategies of the predecessor organizations. Primarily addressed to practitioners, this article introduces the framework of a “merger scan” that enables executives negotiating a deal to analyze whether alternative versions of the new corporate strategy strike an optimal balance between the desire for continuity and the need for strategic renewal. Applying this framework helps executives allocate sufficient time and attention to those integration aspects that involve breaking with the directions of the predecessor firms and thus require change. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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