The adoption of new technologies for sustainability innovation is a theme of current interest in the scientific literature. In particular, the role of blockchain technology is gaining significant attention. Despite its recent introduction, a large number of publications have been produced on the topic. The aim of this paper is to provide a quantitative review […]
This study deals with the emerging phenomenon of the sharing economy and sustainability. This phenomenon is observed within the context of the sharing wardrobe, namely the opportunity for consumers to get the availability of fashion clothes for rent and swap them with other users through the use of online platforms managed by firms that are […]
This article deals with the topic of re-entry of family members to their original family business. The re-entry is defined in the article as the decision of the family to re-invest in the originally founded company and re-acquire the ownership of a previously left business. In particular, the paper advances the idea that psychological ownership […]
This study aims to explore the emergence of an innovation ecosystem as a complex network of entities involved in innovation. After reviewing three ecosystem-based perspectives in the literature, we conduct a participatory and longitudinal action research study based on the analysis of a High Technology District for Cultural Heritage. Our analysis reveals three milestones in […]
The aim of this paper is to shed some more light on the concept of smart ecosystem. This topic is used in different fields of science (Nam and Pardo, 2012; Petroulakis et al., 2012; Al-Nasrawi et al., 2015) and also business literature, in particular the studies from service science scholars (Spohrer and Maglio, 2008) have […]
The role of new technologies and Internet of Things (IoT) (Ashton, 2009) are demonstrated to augment quality and performance of many public and private services industry (Lusch and Nambisan, 2014), including the cultural offerings (Jafari et al., 2013; Siu et al., 2013). This research aims at depicting how new technologies are shaping new service experiences […]
This paper aims at discussing the service (eco)system perspectives to innovation (Akaka and Vargo, 2013) by considering the role of smart technologies in shaping social interactions in complex service systems. The research investigates a smart innovation project named DATABENC promoting smart innovation in heritage business in the regional area of Campania. By adopting sociomaterial approach […]
Purpose – This paper aims to depict many-to-many innovation conceptualizations (Lundvall, 2007), in order to understand which are the most relevant features theorized as leading to the expected results on the basis of what scholars described in their researches. When scanning literature, it is possible to observe that the growing interest for the topic led […]
Purpose – We aim at investigating knowledge and learning mechanisms in innovation ecosystems as organizations and the surrounding firms’ context – including businesses and institutional actors – takes an active role in innovation success. Several studies focus on knowledge as firms’ asset and investigate on how knowledge could be transferred, integrated and managed (Blomqvist and […]