The Management of International Acquisitions

John Child holds the Chair of Commerce at the Birmingham Business School. He was the Founding Director of both the Centre for International Business and Management, University of Cambridge and of the Chinese Management Centre, University of Hong Kong. He is now Director of the Centre for International Business and Organization at Birmingham. He consults for major corporations in the areas of strategic alliances, organizaitonal design, organizational learning, and business operations in China. His books include Strategies of Cooperation (with David Faulkner, OUP 1998) and he is co-editor of the Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge (OUP 2001). David Faulkner is University Lecturer in Strategic Management at the Saïd Business School and Tutorial Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford. He spent much of his career as a strategic management consultant with McKinsey and Co. and Arthur D. Little before moving into academic life. He has been Deputy Director (undergraduate courses) and Deputy Director (MBA) of the Saïd Business School. His publications include Strategies of Co-operation (with John Child, OUP 1998), Co-operative Strategies: Economic, Business, and Organanizational Issues (edited with Mark de Rond, OUP 2000), and the Oxford Handbook of Strategy (2 volumes, edited with Andrew Campbell, OUP 2003). Robert Pitkethly is a University Lecturer in Management Studies at the Saïd Business School, teaching strategic management and management of intellectual property. He is also a Fellow and Tutor in Management at St. Peter's College, University of Oxford. Previous apppointments have included Visiting Fellow at both the Institute of Intellectual Property and the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy in Tokyo, and Research Fellow at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge.