Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Overview of the Book -- International Mergers and Acquisitions: The Issues and Challenges -- Different Approaches to the Understanding of Culture in Mergers and Acquisitions -- Cultural Awareness and National versus Corporate Barriers to Acculturation -- Managing Cultural Differences in Cross-cultural Mergers and Acquisitions -- A Cross-national Assessment of Acculturative Stress in Recent European Mergers -- Leadership and Culture in Transnational Strategic Alliances -- Hungarian Culture and Management Issues within Foreign-owned Hungarian Production Companies -- A Quest for Social Identity — The Pragmatics of Communication in Mergers and Acquisitions -- Foreign Acquisitions in Denmark: Cultural and Communicative Dimensions -- List Of Contributors -- Index