Alliances, Mergers and Networks

High quality (my grade: 8,9) authentic text style summary of all obligatory chapters for the 2015/2016 Alliances, Mergers and Networks course.

Summary of all the classes given during the course Alliances, Mergers & Networks at the VU

Exam for the course Alliances, Mergers & Networks in the Master Business Administration. Very helpful for studying. Composed from questions in a powerpoint presentation so the word document doesn't look very neat..

Summary of the book of Tjemkes et al. (2012)

Summary Strategic Alliance Management Tjemkes, Vos (Alliances, Mergers and Networks)

Organizations enter alliances with each other to access critical resources, but they rely on information from the network of prior alliances to determine with whom to cooperate. These new alliances modify the existing network, prompting an...

Existing literature has mainly focused on the benefits of alliance formation, hereby neglecting the possible costs associated with partnerships and their distribution between alliance partners. This article explores the effects of partner...

By employing a meta-analytic technique to empirically assess the impact of the most commonly researched antecedent variables on post-acquisition performance, King et al look at unidentified variables and their effect upon post-acquisition...

The RBV focuses its attention almost exclusively on resources and capabilities internal to the firm. Recently, scholars have drawn on network literature to highlight the importance of external resources available to the firm through its networks...