Competitive Analysis and Strategy
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
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Competitive Analysis and Strategy (KULeuven - Belderbos) [D0R43a]
Full synthesis for Competitive Analysis and Strategy at KU Leuven (Prof. R. Belderbos, 2025/2026). Three things in one document: all the theory slides organised session by session, a clear summary of the required Besanko et al. (7th ed.) textbook chapters as defined by the professor, and a written answer to every case and literature question discussed in class. Covers all 8 sessions, the opening lecture, and the CSR guest lecture, including every case seen in class. Clear definitions, key framew...
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Notes mini-lectures: part I
PopularMy personal lesson notes are summarised in this document per session, per case (so it is also useful to use for group work of this course): it is based on the recordings which are summaries of the lectures. The document contains 14 pages and covers the first four sessions! This is all you need during your preparation for your first exam.
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Competitive Analysis & Strategy | Mini-Lecture summary notes | KU Leuven | 2025/26
This summary of Competitive Analaysis and Strategy (D0R43a) covers the mini-lectures 5-8. It is based on everything the professor says in the lectures (including examples, and other details). The content is split per slide that the professor talks about. 
 
This method allows to study all the content of the minilectures in a structured way, without having to watch the recordings. It is fully complete and everything the prof says is in this summary! 
 
Good luck with the exam!
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ALL (discount bundle) competitive analysis and strategy
In this discount bundle you will find all the documents required for the competitive analysis and strategy course. It contains notes of the mini-lectures and the questions and solutions of the mock exam for both part I and part II! Be sure to take a look at the description of the separate documents.
Exam (elaborations)
Answers example exam Ekowiki: part II
On Ekowiki, there are a number of sample exam questions and the answer is written out in full in this document. The document contains 3 pages.
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Answers example exam Toledo: part I
On Toledo, the professor gave a number of sample exam questions and the answer is written out in full in this document. The document contains 3 pages.
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samenvatting les8 entry in foreign markets
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samenvatting les 6 strategic commitments
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Summary Competitive Analysis And Strategy (D0R43A) - PART 1 (LECUTRES 1- 4)
This document summarizes the first four theoretical lectures of the course "Competitive Analysis and Strategy", held by Prof. Iwan Bos. 
 
A summary of the cases solved in class is NOT provided in this document - lectures only! 
 
This document prepares for the mid term exam of this course, where only the first four lectures are addressed.
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Summary Case session 1, 2 and 3 - Competitive analysis and strategy
This document gives an elaborate explanation from the book of what has been covered in Case session one, two and three.
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Summary Case session 3 - Competitive Analysis and Strategy
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.
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Summary Case session 2 - Competitive Analysis and Strategy
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).
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Summary of Case Session 1 - Competitive Analysis and Strategy
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.