In many industries, interfirm arrangements play an important role in the development,
commercialization, and diffusion of technical know-how. These arrangements can involve …

This paper examines the key factors that promote inter-organizational collaboration in the
biotechnology industry, a field where research breakthroughs are so broadly distributed that …

This study builds on developments in transaction cost economics to examine how
institutional environment and transaction (project) characteristics affect governance of inter …

Exploring the factors that explain the choice of governance structures in interfirm alliances,
this study challenges the use of a singular emphasis on transaction costs. Such an approach …

We argue that the stock of prior alliances between participants in the biotechnology sector
forms a network that serves as a governance mechanism in interfirm transactions. To test …

We analyze 125 strategic alliance contracts, all of which concern early-stage research at
small biotechnology research and development companies. Staged investment is …

abstract This paper studies some major legal implications of inter‐firm technology partnering
through equity joint ventures, non‐equity partnerships, and licensing contracts. These …

Rapidly innovating industries are not behaving the way theory expects. Conventional
industrial organization theory predicts that when parties in a supply chain have to make …

In economic analyses co-operative agreements are occasionally discussed with reference to
their dissimilarity in organizational and economic 'solidity'and the impact of separate modes …

Prior research suggests that equity joint ventures (JVs) are particularly effective vehicles for
accessing complex technology. Different schools of thought have emphasized different …