The paper explores the concurrent effects of cultural, political, and spatial distances on M&A flows occurring between any two countries belonging to the whole European Union (27 States) or to the European Neighbors group (16 States) over the period 2000-2011 . By employing zero-inflated...

This paper studies the relative geographic scope of two different channels of knowledge flows, a market channel where knowledge diffuses via patent transactions and a non-market channel where knowledge spillovers operate via patent citations. While there is significant work on informal...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the existence of initial capacities within the host partners and the International joint-venture (IJV) performance. Three hypotheses were proposed. We suppose that the IJV firms have specific initial capacities compared to a...

The evolution of international alliances has raised the interest of literature on firm's theory and in terms of the conception and its capacities. Thus, the firm's evolution is view from the technological opportunities and its capacities perspective. In this context, the joint venture is...

The global pharmaceutical industry is in an era of greater uncertainty because of looming patent expiries of established drugs having a direct impact on their sales and profitability. Further discovering new drugs in-house is a risky, time consuming and expensive proposition. This has forced...

As widely acknowledged, the international joint ventures are considered as providing a potential of innovation capabilities and technological capacities. In the case of emerging markets the IJV offer for the recipient partner the possibility to prove its ability to learn, acquire and absorb the...

As widely acknowledged, the international joint ventures are considered as providing a potential of innovation capabilities and technological capacities. In the case of emerging markets the IJV offer for the recipient partner the possibility to prove its ability to learn, acquire and absorb the...

There are several determinants that could have an effect on in-licensing decisions by a pharmaceutical or biotech firm. This work studies over 200 licensing deals involving big pharma companies in the period (2011 – 2015) and identifies different factors that could play a role in licensing...

The evolution of international alliances has raised the interest of literature on firm’s theory and in terms of the conception and its capacities. Thus, the firm’s evolution is viewed from the technological opportunities and its capacities perspective. In this context, the joint venture is...

Les effets des alliances entre firmes appartenant à des pays d'inégal développement suscitent un intérêt particulier non seulement lié au transfert matériel inhérent des alliances, mais aussi au développement de la capacité d'absorption technologique, et précisément l'analyse de...