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Managing deep restructuring:: Danish experiences in Eastern Germany

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  • Meyer, Klaus
  • Bjerg Møller, Inger

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This paper discusses the restructuring in post-socialist economies. Case evidence from East Germany illustrates that foreign investors must do more than provide crucial resources and integrate firms into global production networks. They also have to become involved in the process of organizational change in the enterprise itself. This is often inhibited by compatibility problems and discrepancies between the new strategic management and the local organizational culture which evolved under socialism. Therefore, post-acquisition management in former socialist firms needs to take an evolutionary approach to organizational change, to facilitate the process of organizational integration, and to train employees to operate in a market-economy which requires the communication of tacit managerial and organizational knowledge. This paper offers some suggestions as to how this may be done.

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  • Meyer, Klaus & Bjerg Møller, Inger, 1998. "Managing deep restructuring:: Danish experiences in Eastern Germany," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 16(4), pages 411-421, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:eurman:v:16:y:1998:i:4:p:411-421
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    1. Wright, Mike & Filatotchev, Igor & Buck, Trevor & Bishop, Kate, 2002. "Foreign partners in the Former Soviet Union," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 37(3), pages 165-179, October.
    2. Sarah E. A. Dixon & Klaus E. Meyer & Marc Day, 2010. "Stages of Organizational Transformation in Transition Economies: A Dynamic Capabilities Approach," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(3), pages 416-436, May.
    3. Klaus E. Meyer & Enese Lieb‐Dóczy, 2003. "Post‐Acquisition Restructuring as Evolutionary Process," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(2), pages 459-482, March.
    4. Saul Estrin & Klaus E. Meyer, 2011. "Brownfield Acquisitions," Management International Review, Springer, vol. 51(4), pages 483-509, August.
    5. Latukha, M. & Veselova, A. & Selivanovskikh, L. & Artukh, E. & Mitskevich, E., 2016. "Re-thinking the role of talent management in a firm’s performance: Talent management practices and absorptive capacity," Working Papers 6442, Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University.
    6. Maaja Vadi & Maive Suuroja, 2003. "A Model Of Customer-Oriented Communication And Its Implementation In The Transition Economies," University of Tartu - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Working Paper Series 19, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu (Estonia).
    7. Klaus E Meyer, 2000. "International Production Networks and Enterprise Transformation in Central Europe," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 42(1), pages 135-150, April.
    8. Klaus Uhlenbruck & Klaus E. Meyer & Michael A. Hitt, 2003. "Organizational Transformation in Transition Economies: Resource‐based and Organizational Learning Perspectives," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 40(2), pages 257-282, March.

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