Plotting the future: sense making processes in a post-merger situation

The paper draws on the findings of a UK-based British engineering company that in 1999 bought a collective of businesses spread across Scandinavia. It focuses on the effects of the merger and acquisitions processes upon the way people reconstruct the new organisation. The paper was originally submitted to the 20th EGOS Colloquium on the Organisation as a set of Dynamic relationships, Slovenia 1-3 July 2004.