This chapter analyses the moves global brewery companies undertake towards the distribution of decision-making authority in their multinational organization and the likelihood of newly acquired subsidiaries to influence these moves. In this consumer goods industry, brands are suggested to be the...

In größeren multinationalen Unternehmen findet ein grenzüberschreitender Transfer von Produktions-, Organisations- und Geschäftsmodellen relativ häufig statt. Zwar verfügen die Unternehmen in der Regel über langjährige Erfahrungen in und mit anderen Ländern bzw. Kulturen, und sie haben...

With the unchanging high failure rate of M&As, recent research is putting an increasing emphasis on Cultural Due Diligence (CDD) and socio-cultural Post-Merger Integration (PMI) Management. Nevertheless, the state of the art on CDD is still rare, leading to the fact that its actual value for a...

In response to global market forces such as deregulation and globalization, technological change and digital convergence, the telecommunications in the 1990s witnessed an enormous worldwide round of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). Given both M&A and Innovation a major means of today's competitive...