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Managing organizational diversity: Observations from cross‐border acquisitions
Author(s) -
Napier Nancy K.,
Schweiger David M.,
Kosglow James J.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
human resource management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.888
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1099-050X
pISSN - 0090-4848
DOI - 10.1002/hrm.3930320406
Subject(s) - diversity (politics) , mergers and acquisitions , business , human resource management , human resources , industrial organization , knowledge management , organizational structure , organizational learning , management , economics , sociology , computer science , finance , anthropology
This article examines the processes used over the course of a decade by a European firm managing organizationally diverse acquisitions. The parent company used various human resource management and structural approaches that tolerated diversity while allowing for learning to occur within parent and acquired firms. The parent also provided opportunities for the acquired firms to find their own approaches to working together and integrating, rather than imposing any particular approach on the acquired firms. © 1993 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.