Papers by Mohammad Saleh Farazi
TripAdvisor of healthcare:Opportunities for value creation through patient feedback platforms
Technovation, Mar 1, 2023
TripAdvisor of healthcare:Opportunities for value creation through patient feedback platforms
Technovation
Democratizing Healthcare: Opportunities for Value Creation through Patient Feedback Platforms
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jun 15, 2022
Exploring Gender Influences on Debt vs. Equity Financing of Social and Socio-Tech Ventures
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021
Knowledge and strategy in technology alliances
As the title of the dissertation -Knowledge and Strategy in Technology Alliances- suggests, this ... more As the title of the dissertation -Knowledge and Strategy in Technology Alliances- suggests, this work draws on the intersection of two main disciplines of management: knowledge management and strategic management, and then it further applies the theories developed in these two disciplines to study technology alliances as an increasingly important phenomenon in today?s business world. The three main chapters of the dissertation each deal with aspects of knowledge structuration and how it plays a role in different types of alliances (e.g. alliances upstream versus downstream to the focal technology firm). In the first chapter, we take the first step by identifying strategic groups of biotechnology firms according to the way they structure their knowledge-bases; and then we ask and try to answer the question: ?How does these strategies relate to the firm?s collaborative activities with other organizations?? We distinguish between different types of alliances and suggest research propos...
Socioeconomic Returns in Digital Health Ecosystems: A Panel on Five European Digital Platforms
Academy of Management Proceedings
As all firms compete for scarce resources, many biotechnology firms strive to obtain higher amoun... more As all firms compete for scarce resources, many biotechnology firms strive to obtain higher amounts of financial capital through partnerships with big pharma companies. This paper takes a close look at the technological resources of the biotechnology firm and asks whether their ?depth? and ?breadth? impact the amount of financial capital the firm receives from its big pharma alliance partner. Results show that technological depth is associated with raising more financial capital, whereas breadth is related to less money. More interestingly, when combined with a well-developed technological project, both depth and breadth are positively related with the financial capital raised. Technology Alliances: Disentangling Knowledge Resources to Target Financial Capital
Depth and breadth of knowledge and the governance of technology alliances
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
Abstract This paper focuses on technology alliances between R&D intensive biotechnology firms... more Abstract This paper focuses on technology alliances between R&D intensive biotechnology firms and larger pharmaceutical companies. It aims to investigate whether the biotech partners can leverage the depth and the breadth of their knowledge resources to retain their equity ownership when forming an alliance, and whether prior alliance experience adds to their overall leverage. Using a sample of 390 alliances formed between US biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, we find that biotech firms with deeper technological resources are more likely to retain their equity ownership, and that this relationship is stronger when the biotech firm has more alliance experience.
Raising Capital in Biopharma Alliances; Unraveling the Roles of Technological Depth and Breadth
Academy of Management Proceedings
As all firms compete for scarce resources, many biotechnology firms strive to obtain higher amoun... more As all firms compete for scarce resources, many biotechnology firms strive to obtain higher amounts of financial capital through partnerships with big pharma companies. This paper takes a close loo...
2016 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)
New high-tech firms have extensively used strategic alliances with large incumbent partners to ac... more New high-tech firms have extensively used strategic alliances with large incumbent partners to access complimentary resources and capabilities and to finance their technology projects. However, due to their initially weak bargaining position, they tend to relinquish a disproportional amount of control rights to the larger firm that finances the R&D alliance. This raises the question: How can new high-tech firms, e.g. biotech firms, leverage their knowledge resources to retain control in alliance with larger partners, e.g. pharmaceutical incumbent firms? And, does alliance experience add to their leverage? Focusing on equity and non-equity types of alliance governance, we examine how the firm's depth and breadth of technological knowledge resources impact the choice of governance structure. Our findings suggest that high-tech firms with deeper technological resources are better able to retain control when allying with the larger firm. The relationship is stronger when the new firm has more alliance experience.
This study focuses on knowledge structuration and its strategic implications for new research-int... more This study focuses on knowledge structuration and its strategic implications for new research-intensive firms. These firms mainly pursue growth strategies by leveraging their knowledge-based resources and capabilities in inter-organizational relationships, while they are typically constrained on other resources. Therefore, they need to strategically develop and structure their knowledge resources in a way that guarantees their survival and serves their future goals best. Taking biotechnology firms as our research setting, we first identify groups of firms with similar generic knowledge structuration, i.e. depth and breadth of knowledge possessed by the firm. Then, drawing from organizational learning theory and knowledge-based view, we discuss how strategically structuring the technological knowledge of the firm can affect the benefits it gains from collaborating with other organizations. We provide research propositions for different strategic groups and theoretically link knowledg...
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Papers by Mohammad Saleh Farazi