International Banking Strategic Alliances

JÖRG ITSCHERT read Political Studies and Sociology at the University of Heidelberg. After a career in Law, he joined a major German bank, rising to a senior level. Postgraduate studies were at the University of Nancy in European Studies. His particular interest is in the boundaries between social anthropology, political science and comparative law. REHAN UL-HAQ lectures in Strategic Management at The Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. Research active in the strategic alliances and strategy areas, he is an associate member of the faculty at Henley Management College and consults for the United Nations Group. His growing interest is in the co-evolution of alliances.

PART 1: FLAWED INTERNATIONAL BANKING ALLIANCE Multilateral Banking Cooperation as a Means of Participating in Multinational Link-ups Joint Banking Presence Abroad: A New Brand of Alliance Shareholders and EC Commission Give the Go-Ahead The Birth of the Shared Myth: The Possible Nucleus of a Shared Brand Obstacles and Hindrances on the Way to the Trans-National Alliance Alliance of the Augurs as Jointly Acting Brand Leaders Strategic Alliance: Preliminary Stage or Ultimate Objective? Taking Cooperation from a Global Spectacle to a Focused Joint Servicing of Customers Will to Cooperate: Expression of an Inter-Cultural Work Ethic Business in Central and Eastern Europe in 2000 PART 2: THE STRUCTURAL CRISIS OF TRADITIONAL BANKING Universal Banking: From National Peculiarity to Ideology The Problem with the Presence of Commercial Banks Abroad The 'Domestic-Foreign' Conflict as Multiple Cultural Interference Factor Outlook: International Strategic Alliances More Likely in the Post-Universal Banking Era?