Merging without alienating: interventions promoting cross-cultural organizational integration and their limitations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Brannen, Mary Yoko; Peterson, Mark F.
• 署名单位: California State University System; San Jose State University; INSEAD Business School; State University System of Florida; Florida Atlantic University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2008.80
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 468-489
• 关键词: post-merger integration; cross-cultural work alienation; bicultural organizations; international organizational behavior; Foreign direct investment

摘要

Foreign direct investment, particularly cross-border mergers and acquisitions can spawn a range of individual-level outcomes from cross-cultural adjustment and synergistic learning, on the positive side, to work alienation, on the negative. Unsuccessful navigation of these individual-level outcomes leads to failed integration that can seriously affect the realization of desired organizational outcomes such as successful technology transfer, knowledge-sharing, and the general realization of global growth. By means of an iterative between-methods triangulation, the study surfaces cross-cultural work alienation as a phenomenon that can limit the overall success of such ventures, and identifies interventions that help to promote successful post-merger integration.