Kongsberg Maritime: The Complexity of Post-Merger and Acquisition Integration

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Kongsberg Maritime, a Norway-based company well known for its high-tech ship equipment, succeeded in acquiring Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine in April 2019. Kongsberg Maritime aimed to strengthen its position as a global technology leader by expanding its product portfolio and revenue, enhancing its international setup, and improving overall performance. In the following years, the company faced the challenges of integrating people and products from both large and diverse companies, and of adapting its organizational structure. It had to make two key strategic decisions: the approach to integration (operational, structural, or human) and the location strategy (centralized or decentralized).
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This teaching case is suitable for strategic management, human research management, and international business courses or modules at the graduate, MBA, and executive levels, as well as for internal firm development programs. After working through the case and assignment questions, students will be able to do the following:<ul><li>Explain why firm performance is a key concept in the field of strategy, including how mergers and acquisitions can contribute to firm-level strategy.</li><li>Evaluate the impact of post-merger and acquisition integration processes associated with operational, structural, and human integration. </li><li>Advise managers leading post-merger and acquisition integration processes on choosing an appropriate integration approach.</li><li>Identify managerial challenges confronting multinational companies in cross-border merger and acquisitions.</li></ul>
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