Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Mergers & Acquisitions

• Helps managers to understand how their organisations' performance could be improved.
  
• Presents an overview of the advice on organisational improvement facing managers.
  
• Classifies and evaluates various different approaches.
  
• Highlights the relationships between strategy and capability.

Applying an invaluable sensemaking framework to organizational change and combining the theory and practice of implementing change, this book represents an instructive and informative view on change in business. Its strength lies in two key areas:

• the discussion and explanation of a strategic sensemaking approach, for helping managers, management educators and students to understand organizational change
• a longitudinal study of a major company which underwent several organizational changes, revealing some of the key problems and challenges that managers face when...

Subtitled "Tales of A Deal Junkie," this serious but...

Ronald J. Kudla and Thomas H. McInish explore the implications and advantages of the spin-off, a type of business divestiture which results in a new, separate, publicly held operating company. Using information from in-depth interviews with executives experienced in such divestitures, the authors explain the anticipated benefits to the corporation, as well as to the stockholders of the parent firm. They also explore involuntary spin-offs such as in the recent case of American Telephone and Telegraph--the largest spin-off in history. In successive chapters the authors describe and...

In a timely and important contribution to the management literature, Louis Nevaer and Steven Deck take a careful, critical look at the various forms of corporate restructurings prevalent today-alliances, mergers, and acquisitions-and at their long-term implications for the structure of corporate America. Taking issue with those who see the takeover frenzy as revitalizing American industry, the authors argue that instead the takeover business is weakening American industry and accelerating America's decline in the global economy. They analyze the opportunity costs being incurred by both...