Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Asian B&R Conference on International Business Cooperation (ISBCD 2018)

Risk Analysis of Lenovo Acquiring IBM PC Division

Authors
Jing Zhang, Wenhua Yang
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Jing Zhang
Available Online October 2018.
DOI
10.2991/isbcd-18.2018.73How to use a DOI?
Keywords
acquisition; employee risk;market risk;cultural integration risk
Abstract

On 8 December 2004, when Lenovo announced its decision to acquire IBM PC Division, the IT industry and business community were shocked. It was a smaller Chinese company from a developing country that acquired a larger American company from the most industrialized economy in the world. Most people thought that this acquisition was destined to fail, and the acquisition was compared to ‘a snake swallowing an elephant’. There are three types of risk -- employee risk, market risk and cultural integration risk associated with the acquisition. This paper analyses how Lenovo manages these risks.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Asian B&R Conference on International Business Cooperation (ISBCD 2018)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
October 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-555-9
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/isbcd-18.2018.73How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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