Portail d'archives ouvertes de Grenoble École de Management
Not a member yet
1408 research outputs found
Sort by
"Indicator frenzy" : the "economicist" tendency of public policy and alternative indicators
No full textThe craze for quantitative data has become a hallmark of public policy on both national and local levels. Exploring the limits of quantification allows us to better understand the importance of developing alternative indicators
Innovation ecosystems and HRM practices in SMEs
No full textInternational audienceTerritory and innovation erase the boundaries of entrepreneurship by promoting the emergence of ecosystems that are partially composed of SMEs. What are the HRM challenges in the entrepreneurial territorial dynamic of this type of business? This article seeks to understand the changes in HRM and SMEs when belonging to an ecosystem of innovation. To understand the relationship between ecosystems of innovation and HRM in SME practices, we have put together the contextualisation approach of Pichault and Nizet (2013). A qualitative study was conducted amongst four SMEs located in the Grenoble ecosystem. The result revealed that their HRM does not follow the same pat
Using innovation contests to promote the development of generic technologies
No full textInternational audienceMany technology firms organize innovation contests to discover ideas for new goods, services, and business models. This article investigates an innovation contest during its early phases regarding designing generic technologies. Generic technologies empower the design of several technological applications for multiple markets, create value across several domains, and contribute to the disruption of existing industries. Actors involved in generic technology innovation contests are confronted with double uncertainties in which the scopes of both technologies and markets are uncertain. Based on in-depth analysis of a case study conducted at a leading semiconductor manufacturer, STMicroelectronics, findings describe various phases of generic technology innovation contests, highlighting how such phases support generic potential of ideas to obtain technological platforms. Implications for innovation contests in high-tech environments are discussed
Le réseau social de la communauté francophone des chercheurs en Systèmes d’Information
No full textInternational audienceÀ mesure que la communauté de recherche française en systèmes d’information s’agrandit, le besoin d’en comprendre les spécificités se fait de plus en plus pressant. Cet article s’attache à mettre en évidence la structure du réseau social qui sous-tend la communauté française de recherche en système d’information. Elle s’appuie sur l’analyse des réseaux de co-écritures dans la revue Systèmes d’Information et Management (SIM) et les communications au colloque de l’Association Information et Management (AIM). Cette étude du réseau social, qui manquait à la compréhension des particularismes de la communauté francophone, répond à trois questions : quelle est la structure du réseau social des co-écritures ? Qui sont les acteurs centraux ? Comment le parcours professionnel des chercheurs impacte-t-il leur niveau de centralité ? L’objet de cette étude est de contribuer à la discussion sur les spécificités de la communauté française des SI en vue de renforcer son identité collective. Elle est aussi un moyen pour chacun de ses acteurs de s’interroger sur ses pratiques de co-écritures et sur son rôle dans le réseau social de recherche
The consequences of smart grids for the business model of electricity firms
No full textInternational audienc
The network structure of ideas and the evolutionary synthesis of breakthrough product concepts
No full textInternational audienceInnovation teams are tasked to generate new product concepts that are then evaluated for their originality and feasibility for future development. A focus on generating highly original product concepts would imply using ideas novel to the domain of interest, drawing from evolutionary models of innovation through searching and selecting from highly diverse ideas. A focus on feasible product concepts would imply using ideas more well- known to the domain of interest, with a focus on creative synthesis of ideas. Given these conflicting approaches, how should teams recombine ideas to develop “breakthrough concepts” that combine originality and feasibility? Our study tasked ten teams with the generation of such breakthrough concepts, and we developed concept networks describing how each idea introduced within a team was related to one other. These networks allowed us to examine the properties of individual ideas and resulting linkages between them. Through an inductive comparative analysis approach, we were able to determine three practices-selective integration, avoiding fixation, and linking novelty-that together were indicative of breakthrough concepts judged both novel and feasible. Mixed use of these practices resulted in ideas that lacked either novelty or feasibility or both. By focusing on ideas themselves and their network of interrelation, we are able to provide a new lens on how ideation can occur most effectively within organizations and that fits within a model of evolutionary synthesis
The latest boom in mergers and acquisitions. Should we be worried?
No full textInternational audiencePurpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by independent writers who add their own impartial comments and place the articles in context. Findings An slowdown to the current movement of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) will inevitably come. As with economic booms, the best that can be hoped for is a soft landing. Practical implications This paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent, information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format
Perceptions of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR): lessons from a French longitudinal survey
No full textInternational audienceThe goal of this longitudinal study is to examine the evolution of the perceptions, namely anxiety, ease of use, usefulness, misfit (not customization), trust and usefulness, related to an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) for the clinical staff in a French Teaching hospital. Two surveys were conducted first in September 2013 and second in December 2015, based on a questionnaire consisting of items on the Likert scale. As results, the correlation of all the variables between the two surveys is very significant (except for usefulness, for which the relationship is significant). This is not surprising, given previous studied focused on habits and learning related to technology adoption. Nevertheless, the increase is not spectacular and it makes necessary to evaluate EMR satisfaction and perceptions in order to elaborate a measure standard enabling comparisons and benchmarking among hospitals
Digital data, dynamic capability and financial performance: an empirical investigation in the era of Big Data
No full textInternational audienceFirms automatically and continuously capture a high amount of digital data through social media, RFID tags, clickstreams, smart meters, manufacturing sensors, equipment logs, and vehicle tracking systems. However, empirical evidence on the effects of the generation of these digital data on firm performance remains scarce in the Information Systems and Management literature. Therefore, from a dynamic capability perspective, this paper examines whether companies' ability to leverage digital data, which we call their Digital Data dynamic capability, leads to better financial performance, and whether there are moderating effects on this relationship. In order to achieve these goals, the following research questions are addressed: 1) To what extent do firms that develop Digital Data dynamic capabilities achieve better financial performance? 2) To what extent do organisational and industry-related environmental conditions moderate the relationship between a firm's Digital Data dynamic capability and financial performance? We empirically test our hypotheses through partial least square modelling using a financial database and a survey of sales managers from 125 firms. We find that the development of Digital Data dynamic capability provides value in terms of firm financial performance and that the moderating effects are influential: under high levels of dynamism and munificence in younger firms, the relationship is stronger. Overall, this study evaluates the potential business value of firm digital data use and addresses a lack of empirical evidence on this issue in the Information Systems literature. We discuss two managerial implications. First, managers should pay more attention to digital data phenomena and to ways of leveraging value creation opportunities. Second, managers must evaluate their environmental and organisational characteristics when business opportunities from digital data are taken into account
