TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ailon,Galit
TI  - Global Ambitions and Local Identities: An Israeli-American High-Tech Merger 
SN  - 9781845451943
U1  - 338.8/3095694 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Consolidation and merger of corporations
KW  - Case studies
KW  - High technology industries
KW  - Mergers
KW  - Israel
KW  - United States
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Applied Anthropology
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; CHAPTER 1. Introduction --; CHAPTER 2. Setting --; PART I. The Merger at Work: Enacting a Separate Organizational Identity in Everyday Life --; CHAPTER 3. Identity and Communication Events --; CHAPTER 4. Identity and Representation --; PART II The Merger and the Worker: Aligning Identities, Centering Selves --; CHAPTER 5. Israeli Identity --; CHAPTER 6. Work Identities --; CHAPTER 7. Conclusion --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Until recently, international mergers of companies have been seen as purely financial ventures without any concern for what they meant for the people involved. However, attitudes are gradually changing. This study of a successful Israeli high-tech company's merger with an American competitor offers an important contribution to a better understanding of the social and personal ramifications of mergers. Based upon in-depth fieldwork, the book explores the reality behind the statistics, balance sheets, and managerial prescriptions that are the focus of most studies of international mergers and acquisitions. Offering a richly detailed description of everyday work life, the author reveals the dramas of identity that unfold as a consequence of the company's attempts to redefine the boundaries of the organizational collective by adding to it people from another country. The book debunks many myths used to support arguments both for and against globalization and offers instead an in-depth depiction and a grounded assessment of its everyday realities
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782389316
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782389316
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782389316/original
ER  -