Many takeovers and mergers are not successful, over half fail. Specific after sale integration problems arising from a lack of workforce integration can cause failure. The continued long term success of firms is postulated as requiring a type of acculturation which allows a willingness and...

This paper reviews the literature in the fields of learning, knowledge creation and storage in organisations and links the theories in these fields to mergers and acquisitions. Specifically, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) of East German ex-combines by western firms are examined from the...