Making Acquisitions Work: Learning from Companies’ Successes and Failures

Acquisitions have become a major phenomenon in the corporate world. Although a large number of acquisitions take place at various times, more often than not acquisition decisions end up as disastrous failures. In successful acquisitions, strategy and implementation are more than usually dependent on one another. This report concentrates on the lethal pitfalls experienced during the implementation stage and provides the readers with the awareness to recognize and thereby find ways to tame these pitfalls.