Mergers and acquisitions frequently result in job losses. At the same time, many organizations experience an unplanned and often undesirable exodus of talented personnel post merger or acquisition. Objective merger reselection procedures can play a useful role in guiding organizational retention...

Discusses the substantial increase in merger and acquisition (M & A) activity both domestically and internationally during the 1980s which, in contrast to previous waves of M & A activity, involved organizational marriages between organizations in the same area of business activity. As a result,...