In mergers and acquisitions (M&A), special emphasis is usually placed on the strategic and financial goals of the deal, while the psychological, cultural, and human resource implications do not receive as much attention. This book examines the dynamics of the sociocultural processes inherent in...

Tells the story of how a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs began in the 1990s to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating three monopoly firms-Facebook, Amazon and Google-that now determine the future of the music, film, television, publishing and...

Aus dem Vorwort: Professor Dr. Dietrich Adam, Direktor des Instituts für Industrie- und Krankenhaus­ betriebslehre an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, vollendet am 11. Februar 1996 sein 60. Lebensjahr. Diesen Tag möchten seine heutigen und ehemaligen Mitarbeiter sowie...