Challenges in Technology Entrepreneurship: Managing Inter-professional Conflicts in Biopharmaceutical Enterprises

Călin Gurău ()
Additional contact information
Călin Gurău: Montpellier Business School, Montpellier Research in Management

A chapter in Industry 4.0, 2017, pp 295-313 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Biopharmaceutical enterprises represent classical examples of knowledge organisations that integrate multiple professional cultures. The two main professional groups that should cooperate for the success of the new biopharmaceutical venture—business people and scientists—have, however, different sets of values, which can determine intra-organisational tensions and conflicts. The present study attempts to identify the existing conflicts between the professional sub-cultures that coexist in a biopharmaceutical SME, and to analyse the conflict management procedures employed by the manager-entrepreneur to reconcile the interests, requirements and visions of various groups that work in the organisation.

Keywords: Professional groups; Biopharmaceutical SMEs; Inter-group tensions and conflicts; Conflict management; Managerial procedures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:seschp:978-3-319-49604-7_15

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783319496047

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49604-7_15

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().