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Measuring Competence? Exploring Firm Effects in Pharmaceutical Research

Henderson, Rebecca, Cockburn, Iain·1994·Strategic Management Journal
DOI 10.1002/smj.4250150906
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Renewed interest in the resource-based theory of the firm has focused attention on the role of heterogeneous organizational ‘competence’ in competition. This paper attempts to measure the importance of these effects in the context of pharmaceutical research. We distinguish between ‘component’ and ‘architectural’ competence, and using internal firm data at the program level from 10 major pharmaceutical companies show that together the two forms of competence appear to explain a significant fraction of the variance in research productivity across firms. Our results raise some intriguing questions about the nature of competencies and the ways in which they diffuse over time.

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Metadata

Authors
Henderson, R., & Cockburn, I.
Venue
Strategic Management Journal
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1994
Volume
15
Issue
S1
Pages
63-84
ISSN
  • 0143-2095 (ISSN-L)
  • 1097-0266
DOI
10.1002/smj.4250150906
OpenAlex
W2113787654
Cited by
2,622
References
6
FWCI
51.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm, 7913 d)

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