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Mergers and acquisitions is a trend that occurred in today’s business world, because the arena of intense competition, usually described as ‘the permanent arena of the olympic games’. In the process of mergers and acquisitions rather than assets that become an obstacle problem, but rather on intangible assets, which collaborate on cultural differences, acculturation process must be managed properly so as not to cause failure.
The main cause of failure of mergers and acquisitions is not being able to manage the [...]

How to choose an appropriate approach to a strategic alliance with the company’s needs? who became the first consideration is the priority of the company in a strategic alliance. If the added value and flexibility main consideration then becomes the next consideration procompetitive strategic alliance that will be selected.
Factor when learning becomes a primary consideration, and added value to the next goal, then the non-competitive alliances made a choice. Competitive strategic alliances can be an option if the protection of [...]

As one form of network organization, the strategic alliance is the most attractive form of business. All involved in the automotive industry strategic alliances. Toyota for example, a joint venture with its competitors, Ford, Nissan, Daewoo, Suzuki, Volvo, Isuzu and other brands. All cars made up of thousands of spare parts, if all the spare parts made Toyota so do not meet the economic scale.
There are several reasons to do a strategic alliance: to defend itself from free competition through [...]

Industrial cluster is the formation of alliances and partnerships between companies within the same industry. Cultural harmony need to be considered because of possible cultural differences wider than regional clusters.
If the alliance was formed between companies more broadly, the state boundaries are no longer significant, then the network that created a global alliance. Networks are generally intended to gain strength in entering the global market. Cultural issues will be increasingly widespread in a global alliance network. Cultural environment of each [...]

Globalization and free trade is the biggest challenge for companies. One way to overcome it is to implement a network organization. This networking can be run by fellow firms in a country, or by companies incorporated in one continent to compete in global markets, and various other possibilities.
By doing networking, is expected to achieve better performance due to a merger of several organizations / companies in a single network, thus forming a unity synergistic with the same ultimate goal, namely [...]

Through use of a case study I illustrate the major issues that need to be addressed in joint venture development and management. It is both a retrospective and introspective analysis of the creation and first years’ operations of a joint venture in which I was involved between a healthcare organisation involved in infertility treatment and a consulting firm specialising in male-factor infertility diagnostics and the improvement of laboratory practices to World Health Organisation standards. First, a brief review of the [...]