ABSTRACT
The objective of this thesis is to explore how the organizative factors and cultural factors can influence during the mergers and acquisition (M&A) process in the supplier automotive industry. The application has been made inside that industry, more concrete in the components supplier business. We have studied the different cases of M&A at the first level supplier of automotive industry. We have portrayed in the conceptual framework, going from the general M&A to the principal analysis that is focused on detailed organizative and cultural factors, like the human resources integration and organization culture. In this thesis, we will analyse what happen with the employees and executives of the acquired and acquiree companies. How they deal with the communication during the M&A process and how are the organizative environment and styles of management. In other hand, we will study the influence of the knowledge transfer and in particular of the technology transfer in the M&A.