The Human Side of Mergers and Acquisitions: Managing Collisions Between People, Cultures, and Organizations

by Buono, Anthony F.; Bowditch, James L.

• ISBN13: 9781587981760
• ISBN10: 1587981769
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Author Biography

Anthony F. Buono has a joint appointment as Professor of Management and Sociology at Bentley College. He has written and edited seven books. He is a past chair of the Academy of Management's Management Consulting Division, a Research Fellow with Bentley's Center for Business Ethics, and has received Bentley's highest honors for both teaching and research. Professor Buono's research interests focus on the management-consulting industry, organizational change, and interorganizational strategies, including facilitating mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances. He holds a B.S. from the University of Maryland in Business Administration, and an M.A. and Ph.D. with a concentration in Industrial and Organizational Sociology from Boston College James L. Bowditch is the Stewardship & Planned Giving Officer for the Diocese of Maine. For the past two years, he was the Director of Development at Episcopal Divinity School. Prior to that he was Professor of Management in the Management & Information Systems Department at Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, and earlier, Dean of the College of Business & Administration. He was also Undergraduate Dean and Associate Professor in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. His research has been on the human effects of organizational transformation, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions. He has coauthored five books. He holds a B.A. from Yale in psychology, an M.A. from Western Michigan University in psychology, and a Ph.D. from Purdue in Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures	xi
Preface	xiii
The Human Toll of Mergers and Acquisitions	1	(23)
The Tales of Three Organizational Combinations	24	(35)
Assessing Different Types of Mergers and Acquisitions	59	(28)
Confronting Uncertainty During Merger and Acquisition Stages	87	(21)
Experiencing Merger Traumas and Handling Individual Stress	108	(26)
Integrating Different Cultures and Managing Conflicts	134	(30)
Changing Organizational Cultures During the Merger	164	(29)
Facilitating Organizational Integration After the Merger	193	(38)
Understanding the Hidden Costs of Combining Organizations	231	(17)
Facing the Human Resource Consequences of Mergers and Acquisitions	248	(18)
Appendix: Companies Studied and Research Methods Used	266	(7)
References	273	(28)
Name Index	301	(6)
Subject Index	307