A new research agenda for managing socio-cultural integration

Post-acquisition socio-cultural integration has received increasing attention from both scholars and practitioners since the early 1990s. During the past decade, research has increasingly focused on emotions and identity in mergers and acquisitions. This chapter introduces the reader to the vibrant research field and its relevance. This section sets the scene for the book, which provides a deeper understanding of how emotions—both positive and negative—as well as values and identity enable a deeper socio-cultural integration after a merger or acquisition, and how leadership plays a crucial role in making it all happen. This chapter also highlights how the Nordic approach to post-acquisition socio-cultural integration refers to a large community of Nordic academics focusing on the softer social and human side of acquisition, often relying on a huge variety of qualitative methods, and to Nordic companies that are not afraid of adopting a more collaborative approach to post-acquisition integration

Managing formalization to increase global team effectiveness and meaningfulness of work in multinational organizations

Global teams may help to integrate across locations, and yet, with formalized rules and procedures, responsiveness to those locations’ effectiveness, and the team members’ experiences of work as meaningful may suffer. We employ a mixed-methods approach to understand how the level and content of formalization can be managed to resolve these tensions in multinationals. In a sample of global teams from a large mining and resources organization operating across 44 countries, interviews, observations, and a quantitative 2-wave survey revealed a great deal of variability between teams in how formalization processes were enacted. Only those formalization processes that promoted knowledge sharing were instrumental in improving team effectiveness. Implementing rules and procedures in the set-up of the teams and projects, rather than during interactions, and utilizing protocols to help establish the global team as a source of identity increased this knowledge sharing. Finally, we found members’ personal need for structure moderated the effect of team formalization on how meaningful individuals found their work within the team. These findings have significant implications for theory and practice in multinational organizations

Tantangan Gereja dalam Mengatasi Kenakalan Remaja Kristen di Gabk Bukit Moria Mangais

The problem of delinquency is a social problem thet can ruin public relationships and unsavory attitudes. The purpose of this study is: to learn how the church plays a role in overcoming Christian delinquency on mount moriah. In this study, the authors examined the problem using qualitative methods to approach case studies to field exploration in order to gain greater knowledge in a given situation or ini a case. The authors use several sources such as, books, journals, ang media as sources of information. As for the results of the study, the authors find that the church is not yet fully responsible and properly for the young. Among the problems involted was delinquency. This has had a negative effect on the development of a youth in his youth. For this the church must take an active role in overcoming Christian delinquency. Thus the writer sees the topic of the church's role in overcoming Christian delinquency as highly relevant and contained in a work of writing

The Role of Target Firm Power in M&A Knowledge Transfer

This study examines the role of target firm power in mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;As). We investigate the effects of the position, referent and expert bases of power of the target firm on reverse knowledge transfer. We test our hypotheses on a sample of 123 responses from 106 domestic and foreign acquisitions conducted by Finnish companies. We find that a moderate level of target firm power supports reverse knowledge transfer. Also, we show that referent and expert bases of power are particularly important in explaining the overall degree of target firm power. This study contributes to the M&amp;A literature by elaborating on the role of target firm power.</p