Organizational learning and organizational communication starting to merger breakdown

Why should a project about an organizational merger be interesting? What do the Petit Price and the fox teach us about the mergers? Antoine de Saint-Exupéry tells us a story about to become friends. Knowing the Petit Prince the fox breaks its life style; it learns a new verbal and emotional language and consequently re organizes tis life In this paper, I argue that reading a merger event as a breakdown inside the organization may increase our knowledge about two important areas of sociological studies: organizational learning and organizational communication. I will show with my case study that organizational communication and organizational learning are intertwined. The case around which the argument is made is the development of organizational project realized by the organization, born by horizontal merger, in order to overcome post – merger crisis.