To investigate the influences of a merger on employees in a Japanese company, changes of subjective stress and stress-related symptoms after a merger announcement in a major Japanese financial company were explored using longitudinal study surveys. Seventy-one participants responded to the first and second questionnaires, consisting of stress and symptoms, personal characteristics, lifestyle, m...

Cross-border acquisitions often imply post-merger integration problems and cultural clashes. Despite the general acceptance of this concern, the literature is more interested in the wealth effect for the shareholders than in understanding the ways to improve postmerger performance. In this paper a model of post-merger integration is proposed and applied to a sample of cross-border acquisitions ...

They say fools of venture where angels fear to tread . Up until now , there's been no precedent for a successful technology merger of the size of the HP and Compaq merger. The most quoted failure is the merger of computer vendors Burroughs and Sperry. In 1986 these two merged their dissimilar operations and very different corporate cultures. Unisys, the resulting company, briefly held second pl...

Company mergers and acquisitions reached their peak in the twenty-first century. Mergers and acquisitions have become one of the competitive strategies for external growth. In general, it is believed that mergers and acquisitions can create synergies. However, they require complete information technology system and service integration, especially in the banking industry. Much of the research ha...

After a merger, company officials face the challenge of making compensation schemes uniform and of redesigning teams with managers from companies with different incentives, work habits and recruiting methods. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between executive pay and performance after a merger by dissociating the respective influence of shifts, which occur in both compensation inc...

Geneva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., one of the world’s largest generic drug manufacturers, is the North American hub for the Generics division of Swiss pharmaceutical and life sciences company Novartis International AG. Originally founded by Detroit pharmacist Stanley Tutag in 1946, Geneva moved its headquarters to Broomfield, Colorado in 1974. The company was subsequently acquired by Ciba Corporatio...

On January 10, 2000, Steve Case, CEO of AOL, and Gerald Levin, CEO of Time Warner, announced the acquisition of Time Warner by AOL. This merger is unique in many respects; it is the largest (to this date) merger ever proposed and consummated, valued at the time at $183 billion; it also was the first merger of “old” and “new” media, and by far the most significant Internet-related merger to date...

Company mergers and acquisitions reached their peak in the twenty-first century. Mergers and acquisitions have become one of the competitive strategies for external growth. In general, it is believed that mergers and acquisitions can create synergies. However, they require complete information technology system and service integration, especially in the banking industry. Much of the research ha...