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Networks within industrial districts: Organising knowledge creation and transfer by means of moderate hierarchies
No full textThis paper furnishes evidence of innovative modes of organisation of inter-firm relationships and knowledge management within industrial districts. With the aid of a district firm, we first highlight the marked tendency among the largest companies to eschew an exclusively endogenous innovative process. Next, we analyse how the leading firm can play an active role within a network by assigning outside its boundaries tasks that were once undertaken in-house. This happens gradually with the moderate hierarchisation of originally destructured network relationships. In its attempt to organise innovative modes of design and manufacturing, without losing control and strategic legitimisation, the leading firm elects a coordinating agent with direct responsibility over a selected team of specialist suppliers. © 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers
The impact of institutions on SMEs’ innovation in Transition Economies
No full textAbstract: This paper aims to investigate the institutional impact on innovation of firms across 30 transition countries in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Building on the institutional theory literature, we hypothesize on the direct influence of formal and informal institutions on innovation, also taking into consideration the interaction effects between them, where the last play the role of moderator variable, and third, we examine the EU Membership as a control variable. The study uses structural equation modeling and data from Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys (BEEPS) conducted by the World Bank/EBRD in 2012-2014 to understand the impact of institutional factors on the innovation of SMEs in transition countries. These results suggest that the perceived institutional obstacles are not an issue for the creation of innovation because bribery is used to overcome government ineffectiveness, bureaucracy and inflexible legislation that inhibits smooth economic activities
Remote workers thriving in co-working spaces:: a configurational analysis.
No full textThe present study investigates what drives thriving at work for remote workers in coworking spaces. Coworking spaces are flexible work environments involving individuals from various occupational backgrounds that work in shared, collaborative workspaces that are usually deemed as vibrant and supportive. Coworking spaces reflect significant changes in economic activity due to the increase in digital and location-independent knowledge work. These changes have been further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many companies relying on coworking spaces to host their employees who work remotely. These trends make coworking spaces an ever-more relevant and complex phenomenon. Within this scenario, acknowledging the complexity and importance of coworking spaces, recent literature calls for a more fine-grained understanding of how coworking spaces help achieve positive psychological outcomes such as thriving at work (e.g., represented by a joint sense of vitality and learning at work). A greater understanding of the drivers of remote workers’ thriving in coworking spaces can help coworking providers and employing companies define work arrangements that suit the different – and sometimes conflicting – needs, motives, and psychological experiences of remote workers. Acknowledging the complex set of interrelationships that can underlie thriving at work, this study leverages complexity theory and a qualitative comparative analysis research approach to uncover six different, yet equifinal, configurations of antecedents that drive remote workers’ thriving in coworking spaces
Reti sociali, acquisizione di conoscenza e crescita estera delle start-ups: un'analisi empirica
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Capitale sociale e sviluppo alla scala internazionale degli start-up: un'indagine empirica sui distretti tecnologici metropolitani
No full textKnowledge acquisition and the foreign development of high-tech start-ups: A social capital approach
No full textIn this paper, we use social capital theory to discuss the growth of ‘‘international new ventures’’,
aiming to verify whether or not social capital may be considered as a critical source of knowledge
acquisition abroad. We analyse social capital embedded in vertical relationships between global hightech
start-ups and their largest single foreign customer. Our findings confirm that while the structural
dimension of social capital is positively associated with greater knowledge acquisition, both
relational and cognitive dimensions are negatively linked to knowledge acquisitio
Clusters and rivalry: Does localization really matter?
No full textThis exploratory study addresses the link between rivalry-which we regard as a cognitive social dimension of competition- and localization. We adopt a visual-mapping technique to collect data on firms belonging to the packaging-machinery geographical cluster in Northern Italy.We can summarize our results as follows. Entrepreneurs identifying rivals within the cluster also tend to cite a larger number of rivals altogether. A firm's proximity to its rivals is a key to a deeper comparison with them. Geographical distance represents a tool for scanning the competitive environment; it is not used as a criterion by which to classify rivalry. From these results, we generate a few propositions that shed a new light on the relationship between rivalry and localization. © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
I need you, but do I love you? Strong ties and innovation in supplier–customer relations
Full text linkResearch on supplier-customer relationships has attracted a great deal of attention, as such relationships can positively impact firms’ knowledge acquisition and innovation. Within this stream of research, strong ties with customers have been explored with attention to their beneficial and detrimental effects, presenting a paradox to be addressed. To contribute to this debate, we suggest focusing on how tie strength is measured, and accordingly, we return to the seminal definition of tie strength by Granovetter (1973), who defines it as a combination of behavioural and affective components. We acknowledge that the two components have different characteristics and dynamics, which urges us to unbundle the two components and measure their separate impacts on knowledge acquisition and innovation. To further investigate the role of tie strength in innovation, we hypothesize and test the mediating role of knowledge acquisition. We test our hypothesis in vertical partnerships between SMEs located in a high-tech cluster and their key customers. We show that the unbundled components of strong ties have a direct positive impact on the knowledge acquisition of high-tech SMEs and an indirect positive impact on innovation, with knowledge acquisition mediating the effect. Our study contributes to the debate on the paradox of tie strength in supplier-customer relations by providing and empirically testing a research approach that might complement the previous approaches and by shedding light on the important role of the affective component of tie strength in knowledge acquisition and innovation.Research on supplier–customer relationships has attracted a great deal of attention, as such relationships can positively impact firms’ knowledge acquisition and innovation. Within this stream of research, strong ties with customers have been explored with attention to their beneficial and detrimental effects, presenting a paradox to be addressed. To contribute to this debate, we suggest focusing on how tie strength is measured, and accordingly, we return to the seminal definition of tie strength by Granovetter (1973), who defines it as a combination of behavioural and affective components. We acknowledge that the two components have different characteristics and dynamics, which urges us to unbundle the two components and measure their separate impacts on knowledge acquisition and innovation. To further investigate the role of tie strength in innovation, we hypothesize and test the mediating role of knowledge acquisition. We test our hypothesis in vertical partnerships between small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) located in a high-tech cluster and their key customers. We show that the unbundled components of strong ties have a direct positive impact on the knowledge acquisition of high-tech SMEs and an indirect positive impact on innovation, with knowledge acquisition mediating the effect. Our study contributes to the debate on the paradox of tie strength in supplier–customer relations by providing and empirically testing a research approach that might complement the previous approaches and by shedding light on the important role of the affective component of tie strength in knowledge acquisition and innovation
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