La structure sociale de l’industrie des Biotechnologies en France: une étude des relations inter-organisationnelles au niveau inter-individuel.

Various authors have shown the importance of collaborative relationships for inter-organizational performance, the mode of governance or the trajectory of biotechnology companies. Most of these works analyze the exclusive contractual agreements between companies and their main relationships among in...

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Main Author: Piña-Stranger, Alvaro
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2010-06-01
Series:REDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales
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Online Access:http://revista-redes.rediris.es/html-vol18/vol18_5.htm
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spelling doaj-75053a5b88894649991cae80efd939a82020-11-25T03:00:20ZspaUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaREDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales1579-01852010-06-01185La structure sociale de l’industrie des Biotechnologies en France: une étude des relations inter-organisationnelles au niveau inter-individuel.Piña-Stranger, AlvaroVarious authors have shown the importance of collaborative relationships for inter-organizational performance, the mode of governance or the trajectory of biotechnology companies. Most of these works analyze the exclusive contractual agreements between companies and their main relationships among individuals. We show that this purely economic approach presents a major limitation: the nature of contractual relationships does not explore in detail how players cooperate. We propose to extend the study of these inter-organizational social relations, seen through the resource exchange in inter-individual. An empirical study on the leaders of the biotechnology industry in the area of human health in France has allowed us to map their relationships and resources they exchange them. Our results confirm the existence of a system of exchange dense and multiple. It presents a hierarchical distribution of various types of resources, where the centre is different from the periphery relations denser, more numerous and more reciprocal. However, comparative analysis of different networks reveals that the relationships of the board are highly centralized, while those of friendship following a more even distribution. We suggest that this phenomenon is part of a compensation mechanism to less central actors to maintain inter-organizational relationships. Finally, two standards of the cooperation process, revealed by the relational behaviour of actors, have been discovered. We suggest that they reflect in part the difficult process of adjustment that must cross a science project out of the realm of academic research and develop in a private structure: the biotech company.http://revista-redes.rediris.es/html-vol18/vol18_5.htmBiotech industry - Social Network Analysis - cooperation - inter-organizational relationships
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La structure sociale de l’industrie des Biotechnologies en France: une étude des relations inter-organisationnelles au niveau inter-individuel.
REDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales
Biotech industry - Social Network Analysis - cooperation - inter-organizational relationships
author_facet Piña-Stranger, Alvaro
author_sort Piña-Stranger, Alvaro
title La structure sociale de l’industrie des Biotechnologies en France: une étude des relations inter-organisationnelles au niveau inter-individuel.
title_short La structure sociale de l’industrie des Biotechnologies en France: une étude des relations inter-organisationnelles au niveau inter-individuel.
title_full La structure sociale de l’industrie des Biotechnologies en France: une étude des relations inter-organisationnelles au niveau inter-individuel.
title_fullStr La structure sociale de l’industrie des Biotechnologies en France: une étude des relations inter-organisationnelles au niveau inter-individuel.
title_full_unstemmed La structure sociale de l’industrie des Biotechnologies en France: une étude des relations inter-organisationnelles au niveau inter-individuel.
title_sort la structure sociale de l’industrie des biotechnologies en france: une étude des relations inter-organisationnelles au niveau inter-individuel.
publisher Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
series REDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales
issn 1579-0185
publishDate 2010-06-01
description Various authors have shown the importance of collaborative relationships for inter-organizational performance, the mode of governance or the trajectory of biotechnology companies. Most of these works analyze the exclusive contractual agreements between companies and their main relationships among individuals. We show that this purely economic approach presents a major limitation: the nature of contractual relationships does not explore in detail how players cooperate. We propose to extend the study of these inter-organizational social relations, seen through the resource exchange in inter-individual. An empirical study on the leaders of the biotechnology industry in the area of human health in France has allowed us to map their relationships and resources they exchange them. Our results confirm the existence of a system of exchange dense and multiple. It presents a hierarchical distribution of various types of resources, where the centre is different from the periphery relations denser, more numerous and more reciprocal. However, comparative analysis of different networks reveals that the relationships of the board are highly centralized, while those of friendship following a more even distribution. We suggest that this phenomenon is part of a compensation mechanism to less central actors to maintain inter-organizational relationships. Finally, two standards of the cooperation process, revealed by the relational behaviour of actors, have been discovered. We suggest that they reflect in part the difficult process of adjustment that must cross a science project out of the realm of academic research and develop in a private structure: the biotech company.
topic Biotech industry - Social Network Analysis - cooperation - inter-organizational relationships
url http://revista-redes.rediris.es/html-vol18/vol18_5.htm
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