ABSTRACT
Mergers and other ways of making one out of two or more have become increasingly popular in both government and especially business, for numerous reasons. Overhead costs might thus be saved when two or more separate organizations become one, or economies of scale might occur from creating one larger unit from two or more smaller ones, or an organization might seek some synergistic integration—by vertical or horizontal linkages, by adding to a product line, or by seeking or creating amalgams—as by grafting a firm with strong marketing capacities onto an organization with strong RandD resources.
