Managing Emotions in Mergers and Acquisitions

by Cary L. Cooper and Verena Kusstatscher

Research suggests that an increasing number of people experience organisational changes such as mergers and acquisitions as highly emotional life events. Indeed, given that, as the authors prove, 70% of all mergers and acquisitions fail to reach their initial goals largely because of neglected people issues, it is a must for every manager and M&A researcher to understand the emotional side of such change processes. This fascinating book explains how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845420810
• ISBN13: 9781845420819
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.