Recent major health shocks like the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak, the Zika outbreak, and, last but not least, the Covid-19 pandemic have strongly contributed to drawing attention to the issue of resilience of health systems, because health authorities and organizations experienced severe difficulties in managing these crises. The concept of resilience is assuming a central role […]
With the purpose of verifying the existence of different profiles of firms based on the level of sophistication of their PM core processes, and testing the impact of the interplay between PM supporting dimensions, namely patent strategy and organization for patenting, on the level of sophistication of PM core processes, we collected data from 82 […]
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (I4.0) is dramatically affecting firms’ strategies, transforming their business models. In particular, a bunch of technologies like IoT (Internet of Things), cloud platforms, big data, and data analysis are offering firms the possibility to manage products functions, remotely and globally, kickstarting the design of innovative business models. The aim of this […]
The Copernicus Programme leaded by ESA (European Space Agency) has/is released/ing a huge amount of Earth Observation data and therefore firms operating in the Space Industry aim at getting most out of them. However, this is not straightforward in that, to be exploited, data need to be processed and interpreted and this, on its turn, […]
This paper aims at investigating how the degree of openness, in a depth conception (Laursen and Salter, 2006) and with scientific partners is associated to innovation performance, measured through the number of patent application. Moreover, we provide a detailed and contextual analysis which assigns to a multifaceted setting for innovation a crucial role in shaping […]
To hinder the high failure rate of strategic networks, recently scholars have concentrated on behavioral aspects such as trust, conflict management, resolution and commitment as fundamental antecedents of strategic network performance (Christoffersen, 2013). Within this context, this article focuses on the antecedents of commitment, based on the rationale that high levels of commitment cannot occur […]
Purpose – Considered that the boundaries between the firm and its surrounding environment are increasingly porous, allowing the use of both internal and external innovative ideas and commercial paths to create technological outcomes, this article aims to unveil both internal and external determinants of SME patenting. Design/methodology/approach – We propose an econometric approach based on […]
Purpose – In the last years, researchers have shown that innovation processes are veering towards an “open innovation” approach whereby innovating firms rely increasingly on contributions by external partners (Chesbrough, 2003). In particular, the automobile manufacturing industry is a typically complex technical environment where the cooperation in knowledge creation is very extensive (Lin and Cao, […]
Purpose – This paper has two main aims: the first is to explore the development process of marketing networks, which are much less studied than R&D networks; the second is to identify those organizational and managerial factors that are supposed to have an influence on the success of a SMEs marketing network, given that the […]
Purpose – This paper has two aims: first to investigate whether an ambidextrous organization can be represented in a more integrated and complete way as a second order construct, reflected by contextual (managers social support and performance management context) and structural approaches (see figure below); second to examine whether internal networking mediates the relationship between […]