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

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Strategic alliances as social facts :/ Mark de Rond.
Reminder of title:	business, biotechnology, and intellectual history /
Author:	Rond, Mark de,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Strategic alliances (Business) -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488559
ISBN:	9780511488559 (ebook)

Strategic alliances as social facts : = business, biotechnology, and intellectual history /
Rond, Mark de,

Strategic alliances as social facts :business, biotechnology, and intellectual history /Mark de Rond. - 1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511488559 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

560358
Strategic alliances (Business)

LC Class. No.: HD69.S8 / R66 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 658.4

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