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Corporate Cultural Fit and Performance in Mergers and Acquisitions

Yaakov Weber

School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel.

While cultural fit has been acknowledged to be a potentially important factor in mergers and acquisitions, the concept has been ill-defined. Hence, its relationships to other human aspects in mergers have not been rigorously examined. Further, the relationships between cultural differences and other human factors to the effectiveness of the integration process and financial performance have not been subject to rigorous research that use relatively large samples of mergers and acquisitions. The present study assesses the role of corporate cultural fit, autonomy removal, and commitment of managers to the merger in predicting effective integration between merger partners in different industry sectors. The relationships between, and role of, these variables are found to be complex; they vary across industries and have different relationships with different measures of performance.

Key Words: cultural fit • mergers and acquisitions • performance

Human Relations, Vol. 49, No. 9, 1181-1202 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/001872679604900903
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