Building on Mark's email below, for those of your students that watch Grey's Anatomy on ABC, a current TV show example is the merger between Seattle Grace and Mercy West :-)
Rajshree
Rajshree Agarwal
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College of Business
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:05 AM
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Subject: Re: Need Examples of Subversive Behavior in M&A
Russ,
In my 1992 SMJ paper with Mary Correa, we looked at the merger of a local
hospital with a major tertiary care center. In that merger, there were
lots of subversive activities, both real and imagined. The acquirer
wanted to capture patient referrals and bring them to their own
facilities. Doctors in the target knew this (some had been trained at the
acquirer) and worked to avoid it. The target had been controlled by a
surgical group that had long held power and was reluctant to relinquish
it, either to the acquirer or to other physicians and managers in the
target. Actions to prevent this sometimes became bizarre, such as the
vandalizing of a physician's office by other physicians - caught on
camera.
I don't know if we mention that many of these dynamics in the paper, but I
think Correa covered some in her dissertation write-up.
Let me know if you need more.
Best,
Mark Shanley
On Fri, October 9, 2009 7:18 am, Russ Coff wrote:
> I just finished teaching a simulation exercise to BBA students on the
> politics of post-acquisition integration. I was surprised that students
> had a great deal of trouble believing that managers would be subversive
> even in that kind of setting (e.g., back-stabbing other individuals,
> departments or even the company). If there are specific examples of such
> subversive behavior that you know about, I'd appreciate it if you would
> email them to me.
>
> FYI, you can find some details on the simulation exercise at Organizations
> and Markets
> (http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/10/08/need-examples-of-subversive-behavior-in-ma/)
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Russ
> Russell Coff (www.bus.emory.edu/RCoff/)
>
>
>