Paper info: Accumulating A Critical Mass Of Resources To Gain A Favourable Position Within A Life Sciences Network: The Case Of Levodex

Title

Accumulating A Critical Mass Of Resources To Gain A Favourable Position Within A Life Sciences Network: The Case Of Levodex

Authors

Andrew Keating and

Damien McLoughlin

Place of Publication

The paper was published at the 19th IMP-conference in Lugano, Switzerland in 2003.

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Abstract

This working paper centres on a small Irish start-up company called Levodex that is attempting to specialise in the production of specific forms of catalysts in a specialised field of organic chemistry. The main issue for this paper revolves the attempts of the firm to accumulate a critical mass of resources to establish a favourable network position. To give some semblance of coherence to what is to proceed this paper shall break down into three distinctive parts. The first part shall briefly appraise some literature centring on the themes of resources, the development of resources and the growth of the firm, and the idea of network positioning. Following from the case of Levodex shall be presented. Finally some concluding remarks shall be drawn.