Nasty, brutish, and short: Embeddedness failure in the pharmaceutical industry

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 472-507

  Azoulay, Pierre ^a   Repenning, Nelson P ^a   Zuckerman, Ezra W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 78549287850     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2189/asqu.2010.55.3.472     Document Type: Article

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