The Performance Management after Mergers and Acquisitions in High Technology Manufacturing Business

Abstract:

This article aims to determine the main factors that affect the performance management strategy in high technology manufacturing Greek companies after a merger or an acquisition. For this purpose the article is based not only on the latest literature in performance management strategy, but also to interviews of executive members of manufacturing Greek companies and to the primary results of a quantitative analysis in some Greek companies that operate in manufacturing business and had in the near past a change in their environment due to a merger or acquisition. Findings indicate factors such as leadership, learning, teamwork and recognition as the ones that main affect the performance management of the company.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 495)
• Pages: 171-175
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.495.171
• Online since: November 2011
• Authors: Yiannis Triantafyllopoulos, Nikolaos Konstantopoulos, Damianos P. Sakas
• Keywords: Acquisition, High Technology Business, Learning, Merger, Performance Management

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