National and Corporate Cultural Fit in Mergers/Acquisitions: An Exploratory Study

Yaakov Weber, Oded Shenkar and Adi Raveh
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Yaakov Weber: School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel
Oded Shenkar: Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel and College of Business Administration, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Adi Raveh: School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel

Management Science, 1996, vol. 42, issue 8, 1215-1227

Abstract: While cultural fit has been acknowledged to be a potentially important factor in mergers and acquisitions, the concept has been ill-defined, with no distinction drawn between the national and corporate levels of culture. By examining both international and domestic mergers, the present study assesses the relative role of national and corporate cultural fit in predicting effective integration between merger partners. The innovative, nonparametric co-plot method is introduced, and its main advantage---the simultaneous consideration of both variables and observations---is utilized to explore cultural fit in the two groups of mergers. The findings confirm that national and corporate culture are separate constructs with variable attitudinal and behavioral correlates.

Keywords: co-plot; graphic display; corporate cultural; national culture; international and domestics mergers and acquisitions; top management behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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