The employee's journey to a new organisational culture
(2019) BUSN49 20191Department of Business Administration
- Abstract
- Title: The employee’s journey to a new organisational culture: How employees experience the acculturation process post-acquisition
Authors: Anne Verrips and Lisette Marlous Schoonewelle
Supervisor: Tony Huzzard
School of Economics and Management/ Lund University, Sweden
Date: May 24, 2019
Aim: This thesis aims to develop a deeper understanding of how employees acculturate post-acquisition, its impact on their organisational identity.
Methodology: This research encompasses a qualitative case study which was developed by following an interpretative, abductive approach that allowed us to work simultaneously with theory and our empirical material. Nineteen semi-structured interviews, conducted at our case company Oaklers... (More) - Title: The employee’s journey to a new organisational culture: How employees experience the acculturation process post-acquisition
Authors: Anne Verrips and Lisette Marlous Schoonewelle
Supervisor: Tony Huzzard
School of Economics and Management/ Lund University, Sweden
Date: May 24, 2019
Aim: This thesis aims to develop a deeper understanding of how employees acculturate post-acquisition, its impact on their organisational identity.
Methodology: This research encompasses a qualitative case study which was developed by following an interpretative, abductive approach that allowed us to work simultaneously with theory and our empirical material. Nineteen semi-structured interviews, conducted at our case company Oaklers Group, together with observations, built the foundation of this thesis.
Literature review: In our literature review, we are outlining previous research on acculturation as well as on the concept of organisational identity.
Contributions: This thesis contributes to the existing literature with a detailed description of the individual acculturation process of employees, its impact on organisational identity and the influence of communication on the acculturation process. (Less)
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- author
- Verrips, Anne LU and Schoonewelle, Lisette LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- How employees experience the acculturation process post-acquisition
- course
- BUSN49 20191
- year
- 2019
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Acculturation, acquisition, organisational culture, organisational identity
- language
- English
- id
- 8989804
- date added to LUP
- 2019-08-07 12:47:26
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Authors: Anne Verrips and Lisette Marlous Schoonewelle
Supervisor: Tony Huzzard
School of Economics and Management/ Lund University, Sweden
Date: May 24, 2019
Aim: This thesis aims to develop a deeper understanding of how employees acculturate post-acquisition, its impact on their organisational identity.
Methodology: This research encompasses a qualitative case study which was developed by following an interpretative, abductive approach that allowed us to work simultaneously with theory and our empirical material. Nineteen semi-structured interviews, conducted at our case company Oaklers Group, together with observations, built the foundation of this thesis.
Literature review: In our literature review, we are outlining previous research on acculturation as well as on the concept of organisational identity.
Contributions: This thesis contributes to the existing literature with a detailed description of the individual acculturation process of employees, its impact on organisational identity and the influence of communication on the acculturation process.}},
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