Showing papers by "Bertrand Quelin published in 1999"
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the way firms participating in R&D consortia can benefit from the outcome of common research, which is suggested that the consortiums, which are part of the European EUREKA initiative, provide appropriate organizational structures for the creation of new knowledge and competencies.
Abstract: This paper describes the way firms participating in R&D consortia can benefit from the outcome of common R&D. More specifically, it is suggested that R&D consortia, which are part of the European EUREKA initiative, provide appropriate organizational structures for the creation of new knowledge and competencies. This qualitative research shows that both the function provided to the consortium and in-house capabilities help partners to create resources thanks to co-operative R&D. The links between R&D co-operative outcomes and both the organizational design of the consortium and the internal capabilities of member firms are of general interest for all companies involved in comparable types of consortia and, more generally, in technological partnerships
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the impact of privatization on corporate entrepreneurship and propose a model that illustrates how a firm's capacity to implement internal changes is influenced by credibility of the privatization process, speed of the process, and the new regulatory environment.
Abstract: This paper considers the impact of privatization on corporate entrepreneurship. The proposed model illustrates how a firm's capacity to implement internal changes is influenced by three factors: credibility of the privatization process, speed of the process, and the new regulatory environment. The type of changes (economic calculation, risk-taking, and alterness) and the extent to which they can be implemented ultimately determine the level of post-privatization corporate entrepreneurship that the firm will be abble to develop.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the role and the nature of the firm during the deregulation process have been underestimated in previous works, and the authors propose a dynamic explanation of the strategic transformation of the deregulated firm based on the concepts of firm capabilities, access to rents and transaction costs.
Abstract: The political theory of regulation holds that deregulation of utilities obliges the former monopoly to abandon its rent-seeking activities to concentrate upon economic activities. However, the arguments presented by scholars to explain this strategic transformation are not entirely convincing. We argue in this paper that the role and the nature of the firm during the deregulation process have been underestimated in previous works. After describing the main steps of this process, we thus propose a dynamic explanation of the strategic transformation of the deregulated firm based on the concepts of firm capabilities, access to rents and transaction costs.