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Agents of Embeddedness
Azoulay, Pierre - 2003
explored in an in-depth qualitative examination of sourcing practices in drug development. The outsourcing of central … biotechnology firms, I explain why outsourcing deals take the form of embedded relationships in the first setting, and of seemingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468552
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Acquiring Knowledge Within and Across Firm Boundaries : Evidence from Clinical Development
Azoulay, Pierre - 2003
Considerable evidence suggests that information is acquired more easily within than across firm boundaries. I explore why this is observed in the setting of clinical development. Since the mid-1980s, pharmaceutical firms have partly contracted out the operational aspects of clinical trials to...
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