The political analysis of organisations has gained increasing significance in the last 10 years. In the Anglo-American research in particular the most significant and up-to-date questions from the broad research field of Organizational Politics, have been taken up and examined from a scientific perspective that is essentially empirical. Much attention has been paid to the phenomena of power, the generation and handling of conflict in organisations (with emphasis on the managerial viewpoint), as well as to industrial conflict as a conflict between employers and trade unions. Interesting research results have been achieved in these areas, which can also be found in the German literature. Despite this progress, no consensus can yet be traced in the existing literature upon the definition of the object of research, the problem formulation and the research goal. In view of the different perspectives of the object of research that exist, the integration of multiple research results presents difficulties: the advantage of cooperative, particularly international research results cannot be exploited to the full, and as a result of the absence of a complete research "road map," gaps in the research are discovered more by chance, rather than being identified and elaborated systematically. Furthermore, the economic problems of power, conflict and conflict-handling, which are of great significance for business corporations have received surprisingly little attention. Another weakness is the rather loose relationship that exists with Political Science, which provides important impetus, but which is as yet unsufficiently used as a permanent corresponding discipline.

Das Buch untersucht personalwirtschaftliche Wandlungsprozesse und ihre Gestaltung durch bedeutende deutsche Unternehmen in Japan.

Piotr Bartoszewski sichtet Forschungsrichtungen und wichtigste Forschungsergebnisse, unterzieht sie einer kritischen Prufung, deckt Theorielucken auf und leistet so einen Beitrag zur Entwicklung einer anwendungsbezogenen konfliktorientierten Konzeption fur das erfolgreiche Management von Integrationsprozessen. Grundziele des Integrationsmanagements sind die Steigerung des okonomischen Werts aus Sicht der Shareholder und die Berucksichtigung der funktionsspezifischen Interessen der ubrigen Stakeholder.

Carsten Herbes analysiert die Integration des Einkaufsbereiches, stellt die typischen Integrationsmassnahmen des Erwerbers, z.B. gemeinsame Beschaffung und Umstellung der japanspezifischen Lieferantenbeziehungen auf marktliche Beziehungen, den Zielen der japanischen Stakeholder gegenuber und ermittelt potenzielle Konflikte. Er veranschaulicht die vorhandenen Konfliktfelder und die Probleme beim Umgang mit Konflikten im Gesamtzusammenhang der Post-Merger-Integration anhand von Fallstudien und erarbeitet Losungsvorschlage