Mergers, Aquisitions, Hostile Takeover, etc - Slides l2
Preservation
Haspeslagh. P. C. and Jemison D. B.
(1991). Managing acquisitions: creating
value through corporate renew. New
York: MacmillanNeed for strategicinterdependence
HighLow
High
Need for
organizational
autonomy
LowPreservation Symbiosis Holding Absorption
In preservation acquisitions there is a high need for autonomy and
a low need for interdependence among combining firms. In such
situations the primary task of management is to keep the source of
acquired benefits intact, because deterioration in the acquired
company’s ways of managing, practices, or even motivation would
endanger success (