Managing the Post-acquisition Integration Process: How the Human Iintegration and Task Integration Processes Interact to Foster Value Creation

By Julian Birkinshaw, Henrik Bresman, Lars Håkanson. 2000

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The impact of cultural differences and acculturation factors on post-acquisition conflict ☆ (2010, background): “Consequently, previous empirical studies have mainly shown that it is the attractiveness of the acquirer‘s culture that is important (Birkinshaw et al., 2000; Nahavandi Hypothesis 5a.”
Post - acquisition integration as sensemaking: Glimpses of ambiguity (2003, background): “These researchers have also listed obstacles to integration from a managerial perspective (Birkinshaw et al., 2000; Haspeslagh and Jemison; Hunt, 1990; Pablo, 1994).”
Knowledge-sharing Behavior and Post-acquisition Integration Failure (2005, background): “Assumed this is true, a serious managerial implication is that synergy effects following an acquisition are only achievable through a successful integration of the two firms, not only at the operational and procedural level, but also at the human level (Shrivastava 1986; Birkinshaw et al. 2000; Gran”
Cultural differences, convergence, and crossvergence as explanations of knowledge transfer in international acquisitions (2010, background): “The goal of Birkinshaw et al. (2000) was to establish whether there was any measurable cultural convergence between the acquiring and the acquired firms.”
M&A and innovation: The role of integration and cultural differences—A central European targets perspective (2016, background): “Task integration is defined as resource sharing and the transfer of capabilities (Birkinshaw et al., 2000; Stahl & Voigt, 2008).”
Internal Versus External Knowledge Sourcing Of Subsidiaries - An Organizational Trade-Off (2003, background): “Cultural clashes further complicate the establishment of internal well-functioning relationships (Buono and Bowditch, 1985; Cartwright and Cooper; 1993; Elsass and Veiga, 1994; Birkinshaw et al., 2000; Empson, 2001).”
The Challenge of Integration: A Review of the M&A Integration Literature (2017, background): “Leadership and communication-based interventions, the ongoing management of the ‘human’ side of an integration (Birkinshaw et al. 2000), concern the motivation of stakeholders and the mediation of problems triggered by context or structural interventions.”
Understanding the Human Side of Merger and Acquisition (2005, background): “First, Birkinshaw, Bresman, and Hakanson (2000) reminded us that human integration must not detract from task integration.”