Terrill Frantz from the CASOS Lab at Carnegie Mellon is presenting on the topic of organizational mergers and combinations. Mergers are not just business but in communities such as Counties and Cities collaborating. Organizations are not just people they are constructed of Resources, People, and Tasks and there are 7 unique inter item relationships that exist amongst the three items. People to People on the graph is the social network.
There are 3 primary types of mergers - 1. Conglomerate (unrelated businesses) 2. Vertical Merger (Complimentary products) 3. Horizontal merger (mostly redundant work tasks) Individual actors have self interest in maintaining or improving centrality and betweeness metrics before and during mergers. Part of the experiment was to establish and follow network development as two organizations merged.
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