European J. International Management, Vol. 5, No. 4, 2011 319 Copyright © 2011 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Cross-cultural management in mergers and acquisitions – Editorial Yaakov Weber School of Business Administration, College of Management, Rishon LeZion, Israel Email: yweber@bezeqint.net.il Satu Teerikangas School of Construction & Project Management, UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6 BT, UK Email: s.teerikangas@ucl.ac.uk Audrey Rouzies Department of Strategy, University of Toulouse I, Rue du Doyen-Gabriel-Marty, 31042 Toulouse, France Email: audrey.rouzies@iae-toulouse.fr Shlomo Yedidia Tarba* School of Business Administration, The Center of Law and Business, Ramat-Gan, Israel and Department of Economics and Management, The Open University, Ra’anana, Israel Email: tarba2003@gmail.com *Corresponding author Biographical notes: Yaakov Weber is Professor of Strategic Management and Chair of the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, School of Business, College of Management, Israel. He is President of the EuroMed Business Research Institute (EMRBI) and President of the EuroMed Academy of Business (EMAB). His research studies were published in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Management Science, Human Relations. His recent award was the 2010 Outstanding Author Contribution Award by Emerald publishing. His recent co-authored book is Mergers, Acquisitions, and Strategic Alliances.