ILLUSTRATIONS
Figures
11.1
Maximisation of expected profit net of information cost
11.2
Optimising the collection of costly information
11.3
Basic model of intermediate product flow in a multinational enterprise
12.1
Joint venture strategy and structure
12.2
New venture opportunity for large diversified firms
12.3
Merger and joint venture options for diversified firms
12.4
Main nodes of the networked knowledge-based oligopoly in the biotech-based pharmaceutical industry
12.5
Collaboration
12.6
Alliance
12.7
Club or network
12.8
Small-firm involvement in collaboration
12.9
Club and extra-club linkages
13.1
Possible organisational forms for three small-firm types
14.1
Existing and potentially useful relationships between problem holders and solution holders
14.2
A model of the communication process
14.3
Performance of an established and an invading product: burst of improvement in established product
Tables
2.1
Citations of Richardson’s work in widely used industrial economics texts
Size and business type
13.2
Performance and business type
13.3
Profitability equation (dependent variable: ProfRate)
13.4
Two iteration 3SLS estimates of growth and profitability equations
13.5
Three iteration estimates of growth and profitability equations