Economics of Strategy Notes

This is a summary of the course Strategic Management, taught by Elvira Haezendonck. The summary is written in the year 2021-2022 and is based on the lectures and the textbook. The chapters 5, 10, 12 and 14 were not discussed in class and are not part of the summary. The summary is written in English.

Summary of strategic management based on the slides, book and the course. Summary of the theory and cases.

This is a summary of the course Strategic Management, taught by Elvira Haezendonck. The summary is written in the year 2021-2022 and is based on the lectures and the textbook. The chapters 5, 10, 12 and 14 were not discussed in class and are not part of the summary. The summary is written in English.

Comprehensive summary of the lectures for the course Strategic Management. Suitable for students International Business. Given by Elvira Haezendonck at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in the academic year 2021 - 2022.

Short summary of the most important topics discussed in the book! Clear explanations of concepts and main graphs have been added.

This document gives an elaborate explanation from the book of what has been covered in Case session three. the following topics are being discussed: Price Elasticity of Demand; Competitors Identification; Measuring Market Structure; Market Structure and Competition (Monopoly, Perfect Competition, Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly); Competitive Discipline; impediments to coordination; Asymmetries among firms and the sustainability of cooperative pricing; Facilitating Pricing; Internal Rivalry.

This document gives an elaborate explanation from the book of what has been covered in Case session two. the following topics are being discussed: Reasons to Buy (Bureaucracy effect and exploiting scale and learning economies); Reasons to Make (the foundation of contracts; coordination; Leakages; Transaction Costs; RSI; Holdup problem).

This document gives an elaborate explanation from the book of what has been covered in Case session one. the following topics are being discussed: Definition of Economies of Scale/Scope; Scale Economies, Invisibility, and the spreading of Fixed Costs; Special Sources of Economies of Scale and Scope; Complementariness and Strategic fit; Sources of diseconomies of scale; The learning Curve; Why do firms diversify; and Managerial reasons for diversification.

This is a summary of strategic management given by prof Elvira Haezendonck thought at the VUB. The summary is based on the slides and on the book Economics of strategy, Besanko et al. Solutions of the cases and the exam questions of the year 2020 are also given. Good luck with studying !

Summary of the 3rd bachelor's course Competitive strategy - taught by Elvira Haezendonck.