Brian Tjemkes holds a Ph.D. from Radboud University Nijmegen and is currently employed as professor of Strategic Management at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is Head of the Strategy section, Director of the International Business Administration programme, and Director of the VU Knowledge Hub for Ecosystems. His research interests centre on strategic alliances, business ecosystems, and strategic leadership. His work has been disseminated through various academic and professional conferences and publications in among other Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of International Management, and Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. He is co-author of the books Strategic Alliance Management and Transformative Strategizing. He devoted to share his insights with practice via executive education, workshops, presentations, and professional publications. Orcid: 000-[...]

Pepijn Vos works at the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) as researcher and consultant in the field of managing strategic alliances, public-private partnerships and innovation. He holds a Bachelor in Food Technology Management at the University of Applied Science HAS in Den Bosch and a MSc. in Business Administration at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. In 2008, he joined TNO in The Netherlands as a researcher and consultant in the field of open innovation, co-creation, alliance management and cross sector collaboration. His main interests are in the fields of managing strategic alliances, (inter-organizational) collaboration, and innovation. He works on projects in different fields such as open innovation,organized crime, energy transition, safety and security.

He is co-author of Strategic Alliance Management and 'Samen werken - Samen winnen' (a Dutch book on public-private partnerships).

Koen Burgers is an all-round alliance professional. Experience as management consultant at Kirkman Company. Next, Koen was Director Strategy and Business Transformation at Damen Shipyards. Currently Koen is CEO of SolarDuck, a company active in offshore floating solar which he co-founded. Koen is an alliance professional and applies state of the art academic insights and alliance experience in his management activities. He is co-author of Strategic Alliance Management.

1. Strategic Alliance Management
Part 1: Alliance Development Framework
2. Alliance strategy formulation
3. Alliance partner selection
4. Alliance negotiation
5. Alliance design
6. Alliance launch
7. Alliance management
8. Alliance evaluation
9. Alliance termination
Part 2: Alliance Contingencies
10. Supplier alliances

11. Learning alliances
12. Co-branding alliances
13. International alliances
14. Asymmetrical alliances
15. Cross-sector alliances
16. Coopetition alliances
Part 3: Multi-Partner Constellations
17. Multi-partner alliances
18. Alliance portfolios
19. Alliance networks
20. Business Ecosystems
Part 4: Alliance Professionals
21. Alliance professionals
22. Alliance teams
23. Alliance capabilities
24: Alliance mindset
Part 5: Alliance Transformations
25: Alliance co-evolution
26: Emerging Collaborations
27: SAM: Science & Art