Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Management

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1

Description: STRUCTURING & MANAGING INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCES ***** This course seeks to provide students with the skills, knowledge, and sensitivity required to structure and manage strategic alliances/joint ventures within a global environment. This course will discuss the following topics: motivations for joining strategic alliances/joint ventures, partner selection, structuring strategic alliances/joint ventures to meet firms' strategic objectives, control and management of alliances/joint ventures, evaluation of performance of alliances/joint ventures, and exiting alliances/joint ventures. Case studies will also be used to develop students' capacity to identify issues, to reason carefully through various options and imporve students' ability to manage the organizational process by which alliances/joint ventures get formed and executed. We will also read and discuss recent articles from the business press and academic journals. ***** Instructor(s): Zhang