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Les rapprochements stratégiques inter-firmes le cas de l’industrie pharmaceutique (Strategic partnerships between firms the case of the pharmaceutical industry)

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  • Mohammed Benmahidi

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Face à l’environnement global incertain et une globalisation accélérée des marchés, la vie économique est marquée ces dernières années par un comportement stratégique des firmes sur les marchés. Il s’agit ici de la croissance remarquable des accords de coopération. Dans la littérature économique, ce phénomène a été analysé en terme de coût de transaction généré lors de l’organisation des activités économiques par les firmes. En plus, la coopération a été également expliquée en terme de similitude et/ou de complémentarité des activités de la firme. En revanche, le pouvoir explicatif de ces approches théoriques de la coopération est limité en raison de l’unité de mesure prise en compte dans le choix des structures d’organisationnelles. En effet, vu l’intensité de la concurrence sur les marchés et l’incertitude qui règne, les firmes n’ont plus le temps d’arbitrer entre marché-coopération-hiérarchie. Nous assistons désormais à des coopérations plus globalisées et plus complexes tels que le sont les coalitions et les réseaux inter-firmes. Ce développement remarquable des accords de coopération est essentiellement constaté dans les secteurs intensifs en R&D. Ceci étant, le secteur bio-pharmaceutique constitue un modèle idéal pour appliquer cette nouvelle structure des marchés mondiaux de plus en plus consolidée sous forme de coalition et de réseaux inter-firmes. Facing an uncertain global environnement and an accelerated globalization of markets, the economic context has been characterized during these last years by a srategic behaviour of firms. It concerns the notable increase of cooperation agreements. In the economic literature this phenomenon has been analysed in terms of transaction costs generated by firms in their economic activities. Moreover, the cooperation has also been explained in terms of similarity and complementarity of firms’ activities. On the other hand, the explanatary power of these theoretical approaches of cooperation is limited, owing to the measurement unit taken into account for the choice of organisational structures. Indeed, regarding competition intensity on the markets and uncertainty, firms have no more time to arbitrate between market - cooperation - hierarchy. From now on, we notice that the cooperations are more globalized and more complex, just as the coalitions and the interfirm networks. This outstanding developement of cooperation agreements is more unable in R&D intensive sectors. The biopharmaceutical sector appears like an ideal example to implement this new structure of global market through the creation of iner-firm networks.

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  • Mohammed Benmahidi, 2004. "Les rapprochements stratégiques inter-firmes le cas de l’industrie pharmaceutique (Strategic partnerships between firms the case of the pharmaceutical industry)," Working Papers 90, Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et l'Innovation. ULCO / Research Unit on Industry and Innovation.
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    Keywords

    Rapprochement stratégique; globalisation; bio-pharmaceutique; coopération; concurrence/strategic partnership; globalization; biopharmaceutical; cooperation;
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    JEL classification:

    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • F00 - International Economics - - General - - - General

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