Strategic Alliances as Social Facts: Business, Biotechnology, and Intellectual History

摘要: How can we explain a proliferation of alliances when the probability failure is higher than success? And why have emphasized their order, manageability and predictability whilst acknowledging that they tend to be experienced as messy, politically charged unpredictable? Mark de Rond, in this provocative book, sets out address such paradoxes. Based on in-depth case studies three major biotechnology alliances, he suggests need theories idiosyncracy well social order. He argues must allow for conduct active self-directed but simultaneously inert constrained, thus permitting voluntarism, determinism, serendipity alike causation alliance life. The book offers highly original combination insights from theory intellectual history with more mainstream strategic management organizations literature. It refreshing thought-provoking analysis will appeal practitioner academic researcher alike.