נכון. זה בידיוק מה שמעניין בזה. במקום שהחברה הרוכשת (בואינג) תשליט את התרבות הארגונית שלה על החברה הנרכשת, קרה די ההפך.
הנה כמה מאמרים שמדברים בידיוק על זה:
https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/02/07/boeings-tragedy-the-fall-of-an-american-icon
זאת כתבה מ-2020:
https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merger-led-to-the-737-max-crisis
מתוך הכתבה:
In a clash of corporate cultures, where Boeing’s engineers and McDonnell Douglas’s bean-counters went head-to-head, the smaller company won out. The result was a move away from expensive, ground-breaking engineering and toward what some called a more cut-throat culture, devoted to keeping costs down and favoring upgrading older models at the expense of wholesale innovation. Only now, with the 737 indefinitely grounded, are we beginning to see the scale of its effects.
“The fatal fault line was the McDonnell Douglas takeover,” says Clive Irving, author of Jumbo: The Making of the Boeing 747. “Although Boeing was supposed to take over McDonnell Douglas, it ended up the other way around.”