International Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances (IMAA)
This course:
Covers the development of a strategy for international business expansion;
Evaluates the differences between start-up, merger,
acquisition, alliances, and contractual operations;
Helps to understand
organizational and national factors affecting an IMAA’s success
or failure;
Discusses life cycle, trends, and waves of MAAs;
measurement of success and performance; compatibility criteria
and the level of trust required for the MAA; organizing to buy-and-sell and strategic and psychological preparation;
Covers managing
sustainability: communicating and obtaining buy-in into the new
vision; future preferences; organizational structure; strategic
objectives;
Discusses
developing the implementation and integration plan and
managing the process integration; evaluating intangible assets;
managing simultaneously the relationship and the business;
managing stress, uncertainty, anxiety, and integration; dealing
with culture clash and planning the post-integration period,
including re-acculturation;
Reviews different approaches to
the understanding of culture in IMAAs; cultural awareness;
double layers of national and corporate acculturation; synergy
realization; the importance of leadership; psychological
communication interventions; and developing a framework for
cultural due diligence to bridge the cultural divide and define
the appropriate degree of integration and cultural autonomy.
For syllabus and schedule go to the teaching
website by following the instructions in the
links section.