Such situation happened previously with FedEx when they tried to expand their operations from US to Europe (Italy) by acquiring an Italian freight company. Initially FedEx tried to force US culture on the Italian company (i.e. no lunch hours, long working hours, etc.), however FedEx understood early during this merger that they cannot just completely change the Italian company’s culture immediately and they decided to keep it as is and to hire an Italian branch manager to lead the operations within Italy.
