The Management of Cooperative Strategies in R&D and Innovation Programmes

Peter Buckley and Malcolm Chapman

International Journal of the Economics of Business, 1998, vol. 5, issue 3, 369-381

Abstract: This paper reports on an ESRC-funded project investigating 'the management of cooperative strategies', testing hypotheses drawn largely from (transaction cost) economics using data derived from the investigative methods of social anthropology. Cooperative strategies in a sample of British and French companies were investigated, with a wide range of their contact firms and related institutions being interviewed. The project was part of the ESRC's 'Contracts & Competition' Programme, and the results of the empirical material gathered during the study indicated clearly that the opposition cooperation/competition can not, in any simple way, be regarded as descriptive of the public/private opposition. The study demonstrated, and the paper argues, that the private business sector involves a broad spectrum of collaborative agreements between one company and another, and that a complex range of intermediate possibilities exist between the two notional extremes of markets and hierarchies.

Keywords: Cooperative Strategies; R&D; Innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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