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The organizational design to anticipate the future and discontinuously innovate: evidence from a multiple case study and test through a survey
No full textThe organisation for corporate foresight: evidence from multiple case study in the TLC industry
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The organisation of Corporate Foresight: A multiple case study in the telecommunication industry
Full text linkThe present paper focuses on the organisation of Corporate Foresight (CF): how the companies design their organisation to anticipate future trends and detect weak signals.The research focuses on a multiple case-study in the telecommunication industry. The paper highlights the organisational variables that characterise a CF organisation (organisational definition, specialisation and mechanisms of internal cohesion) and relates them to CF performance measures (effectiveness and efficiency).For increasing CF performance, companies need to define a peculiar system for foresight, more "structural" or more "cultural", to specialise for foresight, to build a control system for procedures and to model internal and external relationships. © 2013 Elsevier Inc
Quattro matrimoni e un funerale: problemi etici nel futuro dell’interfaccia cervello-computer
No full textInvestigating companies journey toward business model innovation through case studies research
No full textThis case study presents an overview of the main steps and challenges encountered in a qualitative, longitudinal investigation of how companies reconfigure and innovate their business models. A business model describes how a company is concretely realizing its long-term strategy, describing the choices for creating, delivering, and capturing value. The fast-changing nature and the increasing complexity of current competitive environments require companies to spend considerable effort into developing new solutions—and therefore innovating their business models—to remain competitive and succeed in the creation of added value. The methods case highlights the importance and the issues in the choice of approaches in qualitative research involving a multiple case study and a longitudinal perspective. We describe the decisions, steps, problems, and lessons learned throughout the phases of (1) research setting and selection of cases, (2) data collection, and (3) data analysis. The case allows us to shed light on the practical challenges that researchers have to face when analyzing the process of business model innovation, such as choosing proper cases; collecting and analyzing rich, temporal, and unstructured data from different companies; and drawing valuable insights from their analysis
Circular innovation ecosystem orchestrators: a capabilities-as-routines-bundles framework
No full textSustainability transition can create novel opportunities for innovation. Creating a circular innovation ecosystem helps firms acquire diverse and novel knowledge, finding partners and configuring environmental and social solutions through collective efforts, ultimately boosting sustainability success. Through a multiple embedded case study of initiatives (routines) of an orchestrator of a circular innovation ecosystem in the coffee industry, this study investigates the bundles of routines that form capabilities required for the development and orchestration of a circular innovation ecosystem. We develop a ‘capability as routines bundle’ framework finding three circular orchestration aggregated capabilities–namely, strategy towards a purpose, organising for stakeholders’ alignment, end to end solution configuration and deployment. Our findings have implications for the literature on circular innovation ecosystems and related capabilities, as well as for ecosystem orchestrators
Inter-organisational technology/knowledge transfer: a framework from critical literature review
Full text linkThis paper aims to provide, through a literature analysis, a solid theoretical foundation that allows identifying the critical factors for technology/knowledge transfer. The literature review allowed to summarize the main contributions collected, to identify the main critical factors for technology/knowledge transfer and to frame them in a simple framework, carrying out a rationalization and classification. We built a reference framework, called “model of technology/knowledge transfer”. The proposed structure considers six categories related to the actors involved (sources, recipients and intermediaries), the relationship between them, the object of the transfer, the channels and mechanisms and the reference context. The factors represent all the main parameters and levers to consider in the design and implementation of an activity of technology/knowledge transfer. This can direct also future research by deepening these factors or the relationship among them
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