Students will have obtained state-of-the-art knowledge on alliances and M&As in terms of both academic contributions and more practitioner's oriented knowledge. M&As and alliances are discussed from various theoretical perspectives. Through presentations students have learned to combine different perspectvies, analyse academic texts and relate them to real-life cases.

The purpose of this course is to give students a better understanding of both structural aspects of alliances and M&As and the process of setting up these specific forms of inter-firm relationships. Several aspects of alliances and M&As will be taught such as:
- strategic management of these inter-firm relationships
- networks
- how-to-do-issues
Students will be tested on both literature and the content of the lectures.

A range of papers from management journals

Courses and workload are very demanding for all IB Master courses. Exchange students need to have obtained a bachelor degree with a major in Business. Exchange students need to major in strategy in their Master.
An advanced level of English