Identify any contradictions you feel exist in either cultural descriptions - any elements you don't think would exist in a real environment As the two companies merge contradictions will continue to develop within the new company. Right now the two companies major contradictions are management styles, acquisition of software (in-house versus vendor-written), and internal cultures. In the real world "mergers and acquisitions have only a one-in-eight success rate based on most standard metrics. Once the …showed first 75 words of 789 total…

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