UK and Germany announced a merger among the two organizations to build a new firm: KPMG Europe LLP. The new firm will be …, i.e., 150 responses in the UK and 140 in Germany. The respondents are former employees of KPMG. Data elicits a more … materialistic culture in the UK than in Germany. The section of questions on behaviors classifies the UK culture as being more open …

. Second, it examines which individuals from which firms remain with the newly created entity after the takeover. Using a … active in the post-takeover period, with employees of the acquired firm being less likely to remain with the new entity in … the short term after takeover than those of the acquiring firm and with the differences between the two types of firms …