Lenovo: Is the Cultural Integration Template Reusable? Case Solution
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PUBLICATION DATE: October 11, 2016
The quantity and worth of Chinese business' cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A s) are rising, however their success rate stays extremely low. The downfall of cultural integration is among the exceedingly crucial factors. In 2005, Lenovo Group Ltd., got IBM's PC department in exactly what was named a "snake swallows elephant " acquisition that triggered an experience worldwide. Throughout the 10 years after the M&A, Lenovo incorporated IBM's PC department's culture through a number of phases of acculturation, which stopped with fantastic progress. Lenovo dealt with a difficulty: Should the very first acquisition's cultural integration be repeated and copied for the x86 Server acquisition?