relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1042/
title: Managing technological transitions through R&D alliances
creator: Riccaboni, Massimo
creator: Moliterni, Rocco
subject: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
subject: RS Pharmacy and materia medica
description: Technological and market transitions are difficult to manage, and collaborations can be viewed as either resources or constraints in dynamic settings. In the biopharmaceutical industry, a paradigmatic shift in the relevant knowledge bases occurred in the mid-1990s, inducing a structural change in the network of R&D collaborations. Search and relational strategies oriented toward exploration versus exploitation have prevailed in different phases of the network evolution. Therefore, biotechnology firms have experienced overwhelming difficulties in reorienting their learning strategies throughout paradigmatic shifts and ambidextrous organizations have been able to attain superior performances in terms of stability and centralization in the R&D network.
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
date: 2009-03
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Riccaboni, Massimo and Moliterni, Rocco  Managing technological transitions through R&D alliances.  R&D Management, 39 (2).  pp. 124-135.  ISSN 0033-6807      (2009)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9310.2009.00545.x
relation: doi:10.1111/j.1467-9310.2009.00545.x