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A mixed-methods approach to identifying buyers’ competencies for enabling innovation
No full textInternational audiencePurchasing and supply management (PSM) plays a pivotal role in increasing overall competitiveness as buyers interact with innovative suppliers and internal teams. The competence-based view encourages buyers to specialise in a few core competencies, but less is known about the range of competencies needed for innovation. Thus, this article aims to understand the individual competencies that PSM professionals need to bring added value to innovation. To address this gap, our research is first based on the findings of the state of the art. Then, mixed-methods research is conducted. It consists of exploratory analysis based on five in-depth case studies including 23 interviews complemented with an extended survey of 138 PSM professionals highly experienced in innovation. These professionals rated the importance of 31 competencies, out of which 18 were revealed thanks to the qualitative phase. The results of the second phase highlighted and expanded some competencies known and shown new ones
Financial Resilience: A Way Forward Towards Economic Development in Developing Countries
No full textInternational audienceFinancial inclusion is a policy priority in both developed and developing countries. Yet almost one in four people remain financially excluded around the globe, with the vast majority living in the developing world. In this paper, we argue that financial resilience: an individual’s ability to function effectively in adverse financial situations, can better help us assist people to cope with financial adversity, develop effective policy and, ultimately, improve economic development. This paper builds on an existing financial resilience measurement framework and adapts it to develop a measure appropriate to the context of developing countries. Indonesia, where one in three people are financially excluded, is used as a case country from which to draw conclusions. We use the Indonesia Family Life Survey and put forward the country’s first snapshot of financial resilience. Implications for research and policy are presented
Data-Driven Cargo Bikes Routing in Last-Mile Delivery
No full textInternational audienceToday, urban logistics is faced with significant growth in e-commerce and new ecological challenges, which require, among other things, reflection on the use of green delivery methods and their involvement. La Poste Group, leader in the urban parcel market, has been operating a fleet of electrically assisted cargo bikes for parcel delivery in the city center of Bordeaux since October 2020. The aim of this experiment is to evaluate the operational and environmental performance of bike logistics compared to motorized delivery vehicles
Why Him Not ME? Inclusive/Exclusive Talent Identification in Academic Public Context: .
No full textInternational audienceWe investigated the relevance of introducing talent identification/classifications among Egyptian public business schools, as perceived by academics, and the expected outcomes of such proposed classification system. We employed thematic analysis of data collected from interviews with 49 academics from three large business schools. Our findings revealed the following themes: no clear systems for talent management; being talent means going the extra mile in research; talent identification/classification system is irrelevant due to: academic corruption; age and religious discrimination; the unique nature of higher education work; and the fears of enforcing clashes, inequality and exclusion. We confirmed that any attempt to constitute talent classifications in the Egyptian higher education does not appear to be a prioritized need for the sector. Nevertheless, we did assert the need to manage motivational, structural, consequential and social responsibility boundaries before the need for constituting any system for talent identification and classifications
The linkage between open innovation, absorptive capacity and managerial ties: A cross-country perspective
No full textInternational audienceThe paper addresses the concepts of inbound open innovation and outbound open innovation as the key elements of the open innovation by incorporating managerial ties and absorptive capacity from a cross-country perspective. This study draws on a cross-sectional sample of 530 companies based in France, Malaysia and the UAE collecting data collect from middle and top managers working in different industries. The results show the mediating effect of perceived absorptive capacity in the relationship of external managerial ties and open innovation (inbound and outbound). Most specifically, managerial ties affect inbound open innovation in all the three surveyed countries while managerial ties relate positively to outbound open innovation in France and the UAE. The mediating role of absorptive capacity is evident in the cases of France and the UAE. Finally, the paper concludes, highlighting the implications of the study findings and its limitations. The paper will help to understand the connection between managerial ties and absorptive capacity that may lead to the successful operations of open innovation
Using focus groups to conduct rigorous and impactful qualitative research in operations management
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Gestion des opérations et transformation digitale : groupes de discussion
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Le rapport aux risques des entrepreneurs : un éclairage sur les tendances sociétales entrepreneuriales
No full textNational audienceLes entreprises comme les entrepreneurs sont sous les feux de la rampe. Plus quejamais ils sont au cœur de nos préoccupations et de nos observations. La montéeen puissance de la microentreprise, le charme de la « start-up nation », l’attirancedes jeunes générations pour l’entrepreneuriat... tout nous indique un véritable attraitcroissant pour la création ou la reprise d’entreprise plutôt qu’un rêve de salariat. Pourautant, l’aventure entrepreneuriale n’est pas sans porter quelques écueils. Ladémarche entrepreneuriale pourrait peut-être même se caractériser par le lien quele futur entrepreneur entretient avec le risque. C’est pourquoi, dans cet esprit dedécryptage des tendances sociétales, le rapport au risque que nourrissent lesentrepreneurs mérite d’être analysé. En effet, ce dernier révèle les motivations et lesmodalités de la démarche entrepreneuriale ainsi que les tendances sociétales de lacréation des entreprises. Afin de comprendre au mieux ce lien, nous avons pubénéficier d’une étude mettant à jour les grandes lignes de ce rapport risque -entreprises sondées auprès de plus de 800 chefs d’entreprise. L’analyse desrésultats de cette étude nous amène à proposer le désir d’indépendance etd’autonomie comme motivation principale à la création d’entreprise tout ensoulignant aussi l’émergence des problématiques de protection sociale. Deuxtendances lourdes de l’entrepreneuriat qu’il faudra assez vite traduire en réponsesopérationnelles pour soutenir et entretenir cet élan
American Latter-Day Saint Business Leaders : A Meta-Ethical, Prosocial and Transformational Leadership
No full textInternational audienceThis article seeks to understand how religion informs the managerial discourse of American managers and business leaders who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the “Mormon Church”. These managers represent an active, if not hyperactive, minority in the American managerial landscape but academic studies about them are extremely limited. We rely on interviews with 12 American managers from this church to understand how their beliefs and the history of their religion influence their managerial vison and practices. Our findings reveal a religiously-informed managerial approach with an ethic of genuine care for individual well-being as a way to attain collective success. This approach is based on five empirical principles: first, active faith leading to personal and collective transformational leadership; second, a search for divine guidance or “revelation” in the decision-making process; third, a “spirit of Deseret” culture that fosters unity in diversity in a “beehive” organizational culture; fourth, goodwill as a source of mutual trust and loyalty; and fifth, a family-oriented business culture. The discussion portrays these religiously-driven managers by also evoking the limits of their prosocial and transformational leadership
The Role of the Hub-firm in Developing Innovation Capabilities: Considering the French Wine Industry Cluster from a Resource Orchestration Lens
No full textInternational audienceThis paper explores how hub-firms in a regional industrial cluster orchestrate resources to enhance the innovation capabilities of member firms and how this role changes as innovation projects develop. The work advances our understanding of how innovation-oriented clusters can drive the collaboration process, support the development of member capabilities, and achieve desired outcomes.The research utilises exploratory case studies within an innovation cluster, where a hub-firm brings together different players for specific innovation projects. Using resource orchestration theory, the paper analyses six project cases to reveal the shifting roles and activities related to structuring, bundling and leveraging different resources for innovation capabilities particularly associated with improved quality and reputation for the firms and region.The study reveals the important role played by the cluster hub-firm in structuring, bundling, and leveraging resources to create and fund project teams. After project formation, a team member takes the role of an orchestrator to bundle further and then leverage the resources to achieve desired outcomes for the team and the region.This research enhances understanding of the hub-firm’s role in a regional cluster not only in orchestrating resources to create collaborative innovation projects but how the role shifts over time. The work advances our understanding of how innovation-oriented clusters can drive the collaboration process, support the development of member capabilities, and achieve successful outcomes.There are implications for practitioners for participating in and further improving the collaborative innovative process.This research enhances understanding of the hub-firm’s role in a regional cluster not only in orchestrating resources to create collaborative innovation projects but how the role shifts over time.This paper explores how hub-firms in a regional industrial cluster orchestrate resources to enhance the innovation capabilities of member firms and how this role changes as innovation projects develop. The work advances our understanding of how innovation-oriented clusters can drive the collaboration process, support the development of member capabilities, and achieve desired outcomes.The research utilises exploratory case studies within an innovation cluster, where a hub-firm brings together different players for specific innovation projects. Using resource orchestration theory, the paper analyses six project cases to reveal the shifting roles and activities related to structuring, bundling and leveraging different resources for innovation capabilities particularly associated with improved quality and reputation for the firms and region.The study reveals the important role played by the cluster hub-firm in structuring, bundling, and leveraging resources to create and fund project teams. After project formation, a team member takes the role of an orchestrator to bundle further and then leverage the resources to achieve desired outcomes for the team and the region.This research enhances understanding of the hub-firm’s role in a regional cluster not only in orchestrating resources to create collaborative innovation projects but how the role shifts over time. The work advances our understanding of how innovation-oriented clusters can drive the collaboration process, support the development of member capabilities, and achieve successful outcomes.There are implications for practitioners for participating in and further improving the collaborative innovative process.This research enhances understanding of the hub-firm’s role in a regional cluster not only in orchestrating resources to create collaborative innovation projects but how the role shifts over time