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Organisational Culture and Post-Merger Integration Failure

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The majority of mergers fail to deliver their projected synergies, and cultural incompatibility is the most frequently cited cause. This paper interrogates that explanation, arguing that 'culture clash' often functions as a post-hoc label for failures of integration planning that were structural and foreseeable.

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What's inside

1 Abstract
2 The Synergy Gap in Merger Outcomes
3 Culture as Explanation and as Excuse
4 Structural Determinants of Integration Failure
5 Evidence from Cross-Border Transactions
6 Designing Integration Before Close
7 Conclusion
8 References

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