"An Advice on the feasibility of a merger between the American Action Company and the German Multi Company"

Diverse management styles and different types of both - natural and company culture lead to complicacies concerning the collaboration between human beings of distinctive cultural background in their everyday work experience. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY We were given the task to analyse the feasibility of a merger between the Action Company, which is an American enterprise and the German Multi Company. Both companies have their reasons for a merger. The financially strong Multi is seeking a partner …

…overall they are similar. But after we took a closer look at the two companies themselves and analysed the national cultural dimensions, we noticed that the two company's cultures differ a lot. We think that the differences found regarding national cultural in the two companies could cause a barrier for the planned merger. This might also have to do with different organisational cultures at which we will take a closer look in the next chapter.