BUS 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tacit Knowledge, Iceberg
11 May 2016
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Merger: you form a new entity with another company. Acquisition: you acquire the shares/stock of another company. In practice, even mergers tend to look like acquisitions because there tends to be one dominant party. When we lose people, we lose more than just the people. Their relationships with other people in the value chain. The problems show up at the post-merger stage, but you should think about these problems at initial planning. Unfortunately, hr does not have much involvement in the initial planning stage. Culture evaluation: iceberg it"s difficult to understand what their underlying beliefs are. There are two aspects of integration: human integration and task integration. Impact of human and task integration on m&a outcome. Equity jvs: a merger forms a new company with the combination of two companies; a jv is a new company in which two or more companies have a stake.
