出版社：International Association for Computer Information Systems
摘要：Technological advances have facilitated global corporate mergers and acquisitions as never before; but despite the seemingly borderless economic advantages perpetrated by the digital age, an information overload upon unsuspecting acquired employees often results in human culture shock. In a corporate environment, differences in foreign ownership, nationalities, and global management practices are often sources of contradiction, conflict, and polarizing taboos resulting from a proliferation of policy and procedural changes, communications, directives, organizational charts, meetings, and training that distract and deter concentration and decision-making. This study explored the national cultural influence an international French parent company effected upon the organizational culture of its American subsidiary; and then observed the subsequent global influence, power, and control that an elephantine U.S. acquiring company effected upon both companies. Findings indicated that the cultural influences imposed by each mature parent company upon the weaker nascent organizational culture of its American subsidiary resulted in a double paralytic culture shock that short-circuited the U.S. subsidiary’s effectiveness and growth. Unique to this qualitative inquiry was the implementation of agile ethnography, an interactive flexible participant- observation methodology bounded by time, access, and the workplace environment.
关键词：Acculturation; Cultural Relativism; Culture Shock; Ethnocentrism; Information Overload; National;Occupational; Organizational Culture
