ABSTRACT
SOPs during mergers and acquisitions When companies merge or one company acquires another, there is a period at first when staff from the two companies continue to work under their own SOPs. The topic of which SOPs to follow will begin to come up as an issue when staff from the two original companies begin to work together on a study; then it becomes critical to know which procedures to follow. This chapter explains how the problem evolves and offers some approaches, guided by the principal that either SOP is fine as long as everyone knows what they are following.
