Gung Ho, And Other Cases

Even though technology has made the World seem like a smaller place, where everyone is connected, there is one thing that will always separate us and make us different and that is are cultures. With many cultural differences between countries, it affects how we do business, our beliefs, the language we speak and much more. In the movie Gung Ho it examines the cultural difference between how the American and Japanese people do work. It shows the difference in work ethics, food, and the language deferential. One of the first cultural difference is language.

Merging with another organization has downfalls of destroying wealth from the merger. Considering the buying price is important when merging, spending too much on the merger will impound the value after the merger. Some mergers do not create wealth so capital is lost through the merger. There is no guarantee of financial gain and every formula considered with focus, just as with an acquisition. The final decision dictated by the variables. One company merging with another company takes the debt and losses of those companies in the new formed company.

Mergers and acquisitions have become a growing trend for companies to inorganically grow a business within its particular industry. There are many goals that companies may be looking to achieve by doing this, but the main reason is to guarantee long-term and profitable growth for their business. Companies have to keep up with a rapidly increasing global market and increased competition. With the struggle for competitive advantage becoming stronger and stronger, it is almost essential to achieve these mergers. Through research I will attempt to dissect the best practices for achieving merger success.

Hostile takeovers are no longer common as they were in the 1980s. However, legal and ethical issues still surround mergers and takeovers (Thomas, 2009). This document examines and identifies legal and ethical issues which the merging parties should consider before, during and after a merger. The document will also look at measures of managing these legal and ethical issues.

A merger is a partial or total combination of two separate business firms and forming of a new one. There are predominantly two kinds of mergers: partial and complete. Partial merger usually involves the combination of joint ventures and inter-corporate stock purchases. Complete mergers are results in blending of identities and the creation of a single succeeding firm. (Hicks, 2012, p 491). Mergers in the healthcare sector, particularly horizontal hospital mergers wherein two or more hospitals merge into a single corporation, are increasing both in frequency and importance. (Gaughan, 2002). This paper is an attempt to study the impact of the merger of two competing healthcare organization and will also attempt to propose appropriate

After thorough research, I recommend that we move our company’s headquarters to Houston, Texas for reasons that include: a bigger demographic, Millennial lifestyle, reduce labor cost, and less tax requirements.

As a result of extensive research on various topics, the one area there has been on the rise and is subject to further debate and analysis is the North American free trade agreement. This particular treaty is of interest owing to the current globalization that is fast consuming economies across the world as well as the change in leadership in the three countries involved. As a result, this essay takes into account the current economic state of the world about the increased competition; need to form economic mergers and the role it plays. Therefore, the choice of this key term is as a result of curiosity of the effect of globalization on the formation of economic mergers.

Mergers are such a complex concept, which can bring about a variety of emotions. I remember learning about the topic while pursuing my MBA. During that time, I reviewed companies that had merged and their history. Some were horrible stories of people losing their jobs and a loss of the mission of the company. I think that in most of these cases (the ones I learned about through MBA) the merger was done out of fear. Their company was struggling to grow, had financial issues, or policy were changing the way they needed to do business. Perhaps this was why there were negative repercussions from the merger.

Mergers and acquisition plays an important role in survival/vitalization of a corporation in today’s market. It continues to be a breakthrough strategy for improving innovation of a company’s product or services, market share, share price etc.

Mergers and acquisitions are the right practical choice for accelerating the development cycle for the companies because there are some advantages from broadening and market extension, such as enhancing business performance, increasing profits, and overall shareholders value. However, it may be there some negative impacts on the company. For example, team management can face some obstacles such as culture, legislation and laws and command-and-control. I believe if there are more beneficiaries and less losers then acquisition or merger is ethical model. The potential of failure for merger or acquisition is high; trying to integrate firms with two different cultures, legislation and laws is difficult. For example, if the company merged or acquired with another company in the same field, it is difficult to grow sales because there aren't really new potential customers. The key to growth through merger or acquisitions is a faster, less expensive, and a much less risky

Although there is a high degree of attention on the financial calculations in these strategic decisions, Cartwright & Cooper (1992) show that 50 percent of all acquisitions fail financially. The reason for this is usually that the human factor plays a larger role than what is recognized during the decision process. According to Buono & Bowditch (1989) most of the problems that affect the result occur internally by the dynamics in the new organization. The human factor is therefore an element that should not be ignored during those strategic changes. A merger is not something that happens to an organization, it happens to the people within the

There are many potential risks associated with acquisitions and mergers. According to Allen (2014) risks include “ the miscalculations regarding the scale, scope and change management implications of the integration and the level of assimilation required” to make the transition a success. Another risk is would include the a lack of an adequate or strong communication strategy. Finally, a lack of identification or preparation to ensure key staff and core competencies are identified and a plan is in place to ensure they are retained could prove to be a major risk.

This paper aims to explore the cultural barriers that GM encounters while doing business in China especially in terms of language and Asian mind difference. As a matter of fact, we cannot examine all the cultural barriers due to the scope of the paper. On the other hand, some differences emerging from different thinking behavior between US and China are exemplified in the second part of the paper. In the first part, the company information and the SWOT analysis of GM are given before going further with the Asian operations of the company.

A merger is said to occur when at least two organizations consent to consolidate, bringing about another element or with the subsequent firm keeping up the character of the gaining organization. Most economies forestall mergers between straightforwardly contending firms. The method of reasoning is to counteract monopolistic economic situations where the buyer does not have any decision aside from only one merchant. Affirmations of monopolistic conduct have tormented Microsoft's operations in Europe.

Mergers have become the way to go in the current climate of instability due to the recession. Since more and more companies are now showing the openness and eagerness towards mergers to enhance the business or to achieve stability, the issues associated with mergers are ever so under scrutiny than ever before.