Managing cultural integration in a Franco-German acquisition
Résumé
This chapter deals with the management of cultural integration in a Franco-German acquisition. The empirical study is based on 15 semi-structured interviews conducted with employees of a French company before the takeover by a German group in the pharmaceutical sector. The findings allow identifying the perceptions that employees of the target have of the intercultural challenges in the implementation of the acquisition. They also highlight the solutions that are proposed by these employees to better integrate cultural differences in this type of operation.