”To be or not to be” successful in a merger between performing arts organizations : a case study of Kilden Performing Arts Centre

2016

Master thesis Business Administration BE501 - University of Agder 2016 Thousands of organizations are merging every year, even though the consensus among scholars is that most, or at least a large part of them fail. And after decades of research into mergers there is no clear consensus as to what it would take to have a successful merger, all though many agree on a handful of success factors being important. Even though there is a vast amount of research on mergers in general, I have found almost nothing about mergers in the performing arts industry. My thesis is looking into this industry, and what it takes to merge successfully here compared to other industries. I try to give an answer to…