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Post-Acquisition Management: A Process of Strategic and Organisational Learning

In: The Management of Corporate Acquisitions

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  • Roland Deiser

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In spring 1991, Percy Barnevik, CEO of ABB, the European engineering company, gave an interview to the Harvard Business Review, in which he emphasised the importance of balancing such ambiguous factors as sufficient size, a clearly structured and well positioned core business, multicultural attitudes, and a multi-domestic presence in order to meet the demands of competitive rules of the emerging European Common Market (HBR March/April 1991). He pointed out very clearly that ABB is striving to build a corporate structure and a company-wide managerial attitude that enhance the implementation of these goals — a tremendous challenge for organisational learning. While Barnevik’s organisational vision and ABB’s efforts to implement are pacesetting, they also serve as a summary of the managerial challenges of a post-acquisition process.

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  • Roland Deiser, 1994. "Post-Acquisition Management: A Process of Strategic and Organisational Learning," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Georg Krogh & Alessandro Sinatra & Harbir Singh (ed.), The Management of Corporate Acquisitions, chapter 14, pages 359-390, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-13016-0_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13016-0_14
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