| Tekijä: | Meyer, C.B. Altenborg, E. |
| Otsikko: | The disintegrating effects of equality: a study of a failed international merger |
| Lehti: | British Journal of Management
2007 : VOL. 18:3, p. 257-271 |
| Asiasana: | equality international mergers |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | Equality is regarded as an important principle to facilitate social integration. The paper investigates what happens when the principle is operationalized from intentions in the pre-merger process to the distribution of resources and decision-making rules in the post-merger process. In a merger between two Scandinavian telecoms corporations, it was found that the principle of equality had the reverse effects on social integration to that predicted in the literature. Instead of facilitating the social integrating process, the principle led to perceptual and structural fallacies negatively influencing social integration. The paper suggests the effect we particularly strong because the international merger was between two state-owned firms of unequal size. |
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