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Old 12-02-2005, 12:31 PM
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I posted a whole thread involving orgs that later merged with other NIC and NPC orgs and what I found out was this:

Fraternity GLOs had a greater tendency to merge if they were founded or had a weak membership shortly before major national or world events occured (Civil War, Great Depression, both world wars).

The other thing I saw with great frequency was that a lot of times only certain individual chapters of the org would affiliate with one or more existing GLOs, as opposed to a formal pooling of resources by both orgs to make a new org. Now that I think about it, there really hasn't been as many real true mergers so much as there has been acquisitions of one org by another org. Offhand, I think that acquisitions have occured with more frequency than formal mergers.

If you want, I'll post the link to the thread and you can read it at your leisure. But it is rather lengthy, but a good read and good research for you to pursue if that is your desire.
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