Joining forces: making one plus one equal three in mergers, acquisitions, and alliances

This new edition covers all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, combining essential insights from the first edition, material on the human side of Mpreservative acquisitions. Global companies are acquiring businesses in China and India. Chinese and Indian firms, like Lenovo and Tata, are globalizing by acquiring U.S. and European assets. These deals pose new kinds of strategic challenges and present new forms of the culture clash that destroys so many mergers. This book identifies the human, organizational, and cultural issues posed by these new forms of M&A and shows how to best manage them. Also, the new edition will expand to include not just techniques for managing a single combination (how to select a partner, set integration goals, put the companies together, and bring people along), but also for developing an ongoing M&A capability within an organization. The capacity to conceive, organize, and implement combinations can become a core competence of companies and a source of competitive advantage. Steps in the process include creating a merger mindset in firms, mergercompetencies among senior managers, and merger readiness and execution skillsamong professionals and workers at every level. Additionallly, this new edition reflects the fact that many executives have already been through one or more M&As and have better training and more tools available to put companies together. This edition helps these seasoned managers to accelerate the process of putting companies together and shows how to build longer term resilience in a merged workforce.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-53737-4
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés