Post-merger integration

Post-merger integration

This article discusses post-merger integration (PMI) and the trade-off between the economic benefits and costs that arise when organizations merge under a new organizational structure and reconfigure their businesses and resources. To reconfiguration scholars, PMI is a crucial tool for firms to reconfigure resources, product lines, and business units to adjust to internal and external environme...

Post-merger Integration (pmi)

Knowledge Sharing in Post Merger Integration

Our study examines the knowledge sharing at a global polymer manufacturing company during its post merger integration period. Drawing on the two opposing views on knowledge in organizations—knowledge-as-object and knowledge-as-relationship—and growing recognition in the literature that deliberate and formalized knowledge sharing approaches may not exactly mirror what is going on in the organiza...

Executive Briefing on Post Merger Integration

Post-Merger Integration of R&D

The competitive landscape is changing as the wipe out of less successful companies continues in the wake of the recession. For the audacious, there are opportunities to acquire other companies as a means to further strengthening their position for the next upturn. However, an in-depth study conducted by Arthur D. Little notes that while the potential gain of merging R&D departments is substanti...