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From capability to connectivity - absorptive capacity and exploratory alliances in biopharmaceutical firms: a US-Europe comparison
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posted on 2014-05-22, 08:12 authored by Tianjiao Xia, Stephen RoperIn this paper, we explore the relationship between aspects of firms’ potential absorptive capacity (PACAP) on their involvement in exploratory alliances. Our study is based on survey data from firms in the US and European (the UK, Germany, France and Ireland) biopharmaceutical sectors. We use zero inflated negative binomial (ZINB) models to capture the number of exploratory alliances in which firms are engaged, and find that the assimilation dimension of PACAP is significantly more important than the acquisition dimension. More specifically, we find that skill levels and continuous R&D play an important role in determining biopharmaceutical firms’ exploratory alliance activity, while R&D intensity proves relatively unimportant. Our results also highlight differences between the determinants of alliance behaviour in the US and Europe: in the US firms’ skill levels prove more significant, while in Europe continuity of R&D proves more significant. Commonalities are also observed, however, with firms’ strategic focus and an inverted ‘U’ shaped relationship between firm size and alliance engagement evident in both areas.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Citation
XIA, T. and ROPER, S., 2008. From capability to connectivity - absorptive capacity and exploratory alliances in biopharmaceutical firms: a US-Europe comparison. Technovation, 28 (11), pp. 776 - 785.Publisher
© Elsevier Ltd.Version
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publication date
2008Notes
Closed access. This article was published in the journal, Technovation [© Elsevier Ltd.] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2008.03.007ISSN
0166-4972Publisher version
Language
- en