Coalitions industrielles, réseaux de firmes et dynamiques de concurrence-coopération dans les secteurs en cours de globalisation: le cas de l'industrie pharmaceutique

Abdelillah Hamdouch and Marc-Hubert Depret
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Marc-Hubert Depret: IFRESI-CLERSE - Université de Lille I

Cahiers de la Maison des Sciences Economiques from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1)

Abstract: One of the salient features of the ongoing mutations (deregulation, increasing globalization and radical technological changes) within several important industries lies in the concomitance of two tendencies, apparently opposite : on the one hand, interfirm competition tends to sharpen and globalize ; on the other hand, cooperative relationships and Mergers&Acquisitions deals between rivals tends to develop very quickly and to diversify. As the case of the pharmaceutical industry studied in this paper shows, this apparent paradox is not relevant. It constitutes in fact the logical consequence of the mutations cited above, which are radically re-shaping the structural parameters and the strategic means of rivalry within deregulated and globalized industries. In this new competitive context, rivalry and cooperation are increasingly combined through coalitions and networks, both technological and industrial, involving pharmaceutical groups and biotechnologies companies in a new kind of competitive game around innovation processes and market pre-emption

Keywords: Biotechnologies; coalitions; competition; globalization; innovation processes; networks; pharmaceutical industry; technological change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L10 L20 L65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2000-03
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Working Paper: Coalitions industrielles, reseaux de firmes et dynamiques de concurrence-cooperation dans les secteurs en cours de globalisation: le cas de l'industrie pharmaceutique (2000)
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