Managed by the other: cultural anxieties in two Anglo-Americanized Swedish firms
研究沃尔沃汽车和阿斯利康两家瑞典公司的员工如何应对英美收购与合并带来的文化影响，揭示文化适应中的焦虑与价值观重构。
Abstract This paper reports a study of how the co-workers in two major Swedish companies, Volvo Cars and AstraZeneca, respond to the cultural influences from an American and a British company, derived from an acquisition and a merger at the end of the 1990s. These responses are examined in terms of being 'cultural anxieties', a form of emotional coping with ambiguities regarding the future on the part of the co-workers. The paper shows that adapting to an alien culture is not a trivial matter but rather includes a series of re-evaluations of predominant values, norms and beliefs. The paper concludes that the organization culture literature needs to recognize the consequences of cultural changes, the movement from one largely taken-for-granted cultural regime to another, more heterogeneous and complex, and how co-workers cope with such experiences of uprooting enacted and agreed upon cultures. Keywords: Organization culturecultural anxietyemotional managementautomotive industrypharmaceutical industry Acknowledgements The research project was financially supported by a grant from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. The authors would like to thank Sten Setterberg and Mats Sundgren and the interviewees for their participation in the research project.