Face-to-face communication versus memo communication to announce mergers and acquisitions the importance of media richness

Description

The purpose of this study was to examine the current research on mergers and acquisitions which includes organizational factors, such as communication processes, and their impact on employee reactions. The current study addresses this issue through a simulated M&A announcement laboratory experiment with 156 CSUSB undergraduate students.

Links & Downloads

1. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/140
2. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1140&context=etd-project

Tags

Organizational behavior

Industrial Psychology

Consolidation and merger of corporations

Organizational change -- Management

Communication in organizations

Corporate culture

Organizational Communication

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:csusb.edu/oai:scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu:etd-project-1140
Date	01 January 2011
Creators	Hopeck, Janell Marie
Publisher	CSUSB ScholarWorks
Source Sets	California State University San Bernardino
Detected Language	English
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Source	Theses Digitization Project