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Organizational Identity and Value Triangle: Management of Jungian Paradoxes to Enable Sustainable Business Model Innovation
No full textBiloslavo et al. add a much-needed new lens to understanding the nature of sustainable business models. Drawing on an interdisciplinary approach and adopting a Jungian dialectical approach, they explore the connections between organizational identity, paradoxes, and sustainable business model innovation. A sustainable business model framework termed the “Value Triangle” is applied to an illustrative case study of Japanese firm Muji. The result is a new perspective on designing sustainable business models incorporating paradoxical characteristics of organizational identity. This chapter supports the contention that organizational identity and sustainable business models can be mutually constitutive
Online Gambling: Today’s Possibilities and Tomorrow’s Opportunities
Get PDFWith the development of new information and communication technologies (ICT), above all computers and the internet, new forms of online commerce have emerged. The gambling industry began using the power of the rapidly developing virtual market by offering its services in online casinos. The phenomenon of online gambling has encouraged researchers to direct their work into various areas, including the characteristics or profile of online gamblers. In light of the data on the growth of the market for online gambling it is evident that, in the relation between the many types of traditional and online gambling, visits to traditional casinos predominate, as do predictions about the development of the internet. We therefore decided to examine the characteristics of gamblers in traditional casinos and to determine what percentage of them also gamble online, as well as to establish their profile. The aim of the research was to determine how their characteristics in respect of the development of the internet and the growth of the market have influenced the subsequent development of traditional and internet casinos. We predict that both types of gambling, each in its own way, will compete for gamblers. For traditional casinos the best solution seems to be opening their own online casinos; online casinos will have to remain abreast of the development of the internet and communication technology.online gambling, online casino, online gambling product
Knowledge transferring and small and medium enterprise’s (SME’s) effectiveness: emerging insights and future directions
No full textPurpose – This paper aims to define knowledge transfer and small and medium enterprise’s (SME’s)
effectiveness. This research framework examines how employees understand, create and apply knowledge in a
day-to-day working context, and how knowledge and other organisational factors influence knowledge
transfer within the organisation.
Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative research approach was applied. The authors conducted
semi-structured group interviews with the members of three departments of a small hi-tech company. All
collected data were manually coded, using in vivo coding and discussed among the authors. As the continuation
of the semi-structured group interview, the technique of cognitive maps was applied.
Findings – According to the results, the critical elements of knowledge transfer within small hi-tech
companies seem (1) available slack time, (2) reciprocity and level of trust among employees, (3) social capital of
employees and (4) practically oriented technical knowledge. It is also noted that the knowledge transfer is
carried out to solve the problems identified by the employees, and these seek knowledge directly from the
knowledge bearers who represent a kind of organisational memory.
Practical implications – Knowledge transfer in SMEs occurs almost exclusively face-by-face, and
individuals involved pay attention to the time required by this process. The co-creation of an organisational
space that allows and supports an open discussion within and between departments is therefore of
fundamental importance in order not to preclude organisational learning. In addition, non-financial incentives
must be established to help transfer tacit knowledge. This allows to overcome the difficulty of employees in
recognising the organisational knowledge base that they see above all in themselves.
Originality/value – This paper throws additional light on understanding how knowledge transfer happens
within small hi-tech companies. The applied qualitative research methods allow a better understanding of the
“how” and “why” questions associated with the social processes surrounding knowledge transfer
L'innovazione strategica nei piccoli e medi studi commercialistici triveneti
Get PDFThe financial crisis imposes on the majority of firms to make radical changes to their business model through strategic innovation. Nowadays, more than ever, firms, especially SMEs, need the support of their trusted accountancy practices in order to rise to the competitive challenges they have to face. This, together with the field invasion of the « big four » and of the « second tier », means that the small and medium accountancy practices (SMPs) are also having to make radical changes to their business models. In this study, the current business models of Italian SMPs and their expected evolution have been investigated in order to find out if they can already support the strategic innovation of SMEs or, at least, if they will be able to do so in future. A cluster analysis carried out on 1,241 SMPs in north-east Italy has led to the identification of four SMP groups: 1) Passive Personals: these adopt a business model centred around the owner of the SMP; as they do not problematize the need to modify the model, they seem destined to offer fewer and fewer services to a decreasing number of less and less structured customers; 2) Reactive Personals: unlike the previous group, these see the need to modify their business model and may see surprisingly positive developments in future; 3) Passive Structured: these adopt a business model centred on the supply of services which, though not standardized, are not innovative. They do not problematize the need for change and thus seem destined to become « old glories »; 4) Reactive Structured: unlike the previous group, these see the need to modify their business model but aim for an incremental, rather than a radical, improvement
Business model transformation toward sustainability: the impact of legitimation
Get PDFPurpose – This study aims to identify the legitimacy issues raised during a sustainable business model innovation, deployed by an Italian company, which was analyzed through the lens of the legitimation theory and the business model innovation theory.
Design/methodology/approach – A single case study methodology is employed for empirical research.
Semistructured interviews, with top and middle management, were conducted together with the analysis of several internal and external documents, to corroborate the case analysis.
Findings – Results show how the potentiality of digital technologies allows the development of new sustainable business models, which, though, still need to gain legitimation to be accepted. The study findingsallow drawing both on the business model innovation theory and on the legitimation theory, as they show how
legitimation is a dynamic concept that involves internal as well as external stakeholders to support business model innovation.
Originality/value – The paper is novel, since it addresses the topic of sustainable business models development, showing how companies can get legitimation. The paper builds on existing theories and provides a practical example
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
An Eco-Critical Perspective on Business Models: The Value Triangle as an Approach to Closing the Sustainability Gap
Get PDFDespite business models having been discussed thoroughly by academics there are still some epistemological and ontological issues that have yet to be resolved. Business models seem to have stalled at the technological era and have not fully engaged with the era of sustainability. The purpose of our paper is to add a new lens and richness to sustainable business model research by building on the need for more interdisciplinary approaches. This paper applies an eco-critical approach to analyse the 20 most often cited business model frameworks. We explore the conventional understanding of the business models based on the language applied and reflect on gaps in the current perspectives of sustainability. The analysis shows that existing business model frameworks exclude natural and social aspects of organisational environment from the discussion and tend to neglect the interrelationships between economic and not-economic actors as well as the intertemporal trade-offs. Based on the results of the analysis we propose a new sustainable business model framework named "Value Triangle", which explicitly includes as core elements society incorporating the natural environment and future generations and three types of co-created and co-delivered value: public, partner and customer. The Value Triangle together with the corresponding canvas is presented through a business case for sustainability represented by Italian company Loccioni. The results show that the proposed business model framework and canvas allow managers to understand, analyse and evaluate their business models along all three dimensions of sustainability - economic, social, and environmental simultaneously. Such an understanding helps drive the field towards making a meaningful contribution to solving the UN global challenges and sustain ability agenda. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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