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We suggest that organizational identity - 'who we are' - may be as influential as culture - 'how we do things' - in affecting the integration process, especially in mergers of equals. We also suggest that the framing of a merger as one of 'equals' is itself likely to reinforce existing organizational identities by setting up an expectation of strict equality in all aspects of the merger.