Strategic Alliances as Social Facts
Business, Biotechnology, and Intellectual History
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 19 June 2003
- ISBN 9780521811101
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages230 pages
- Size 236x161x21 mm
- Weight 526 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 19 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
Thought-provoking, insightful analysis examining social dimension of strategic alliances based on in-depth biotechnology case studies.
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How can we explain a proliferation of alliances when the probability of failure is higher than success? And why have we emphasized their order, manageability and predictability whilst acknowledging that they tend to be experienced as messy, politically charged and unpredictable? Mark de Rond, in this provocative book, sets out to address such paradoxes. Based on in-depth case studies of three major biotechnology alliances, he suggests that we need theories to explain idiosyncracy as well as social order. He argues that such theories must allow for social conduct to be active and self-directed but simultaneously inert and constrained, thus permitting voluntarism, determinism, and serendipity alike to explain causation in alliance life. The book offers a highly original combination of insights from social theory and intellectual history with more mainstream strategic management and organizations literature. It is a refreshing and thought-provoking analysis that will appeal to practitioner and academic researcher alike.
'An absorbing account of strategic learning in a hi-tech sector. Written in an elegant and witty style, it opens the analysis to a wide audience. The case histories are likely to be quoted in management teaching and research for some time to come.' Professor Raymond Loveridge, Said Business School, University of Oxford
Table of Contents:
Foreword A. Huff; Preface: By way of introduction; 1. Paradoxes of alliance life; 2. The context of drug discovery; 3. Case study 1: Rummidgen and plethora; 4. Case study 2: Cambiogen and plethora; 5. Case study 3: Bionatura and pflegum-courtal; 6. Putting two and two together: Revisiting theory and practice; 7. Strategy, structure, and structuration: The general in the particular; 8. The hedgehog and the fox: The particular in the general; 9. The legitimacy of messiness; Appendix: A few words on methodology.
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Strategic Alliances as Social Facts: Business, Biotechnology, and Intellectual History
