Nonprofit post-merger identification: Network size, relational heterogeneity, and perceived integration effectiveness

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)

The Role of Occupational Identification During Post-Merger Integration

Integration processes after mergers are fraught with difficulties, and constitute a main cause of merger failure. This study focuses on the human aspect of post-merger integration, and in particular, on the role of occupational identification. We theorize and empirically demonstrate by means of a survey design that employees' identification with their occupation is positively related to their w...

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