Strategic alliances as social facts : business, biotechnology, and intellectual history /

"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,...

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Main Author: Rond, Mark de
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Paradoxes of alliance life
  • The context of drug discovery
  • Through the looking glass 1: Rummidgen and Plethora
  • Through the looking glass 2: Cambiogen and Plethora
  • Through the looking glass 3: Bionatura and Pflegum Courtal
  • Putting two and two together: revisiting theory and practice
  • Strategy, structure, and structuration: the general in the particular
  • The hedgehog and the fox: the particular in the general
  • The legitimacy of messiness.