Unit 7: Research Analysis

Article Specific Directions

Chapter 28, Research Report 28.1 – The realistic merger preview

The Schweiger and DeNisi (1991) article is not that recent, so it  should be possible to find something more recent than this article. The  point of the exercise is to find another article dealing with  communications or information and change.

To that end it may be helpful to:

1. Use the library databases to search on “communication”, “change”,  “merger”, or “change” as well as the authors’ names to find related  articles. The chapter may provide you with useful search terms as  well. Given the difficulty that you may have in finding a direct match,  if you find an article that deals with similar issues, that will be  sufficient for this exercise.
2. Use Research report 28.1 to generate search terms, as previously  suggested. The narrative has useful phrases that can be used for a  literature search.
3. You do not want to merely summarize the article. You want to  indicate whether the article you found is consistent or inconsistent  with the Schweiger and DeNisi (1991) findings. Then you want to discuss  what these results, as a whole (both articles together), mean to leaders  and managers in terms of being able to consider the effects of  communication and information sharing on change efforts.