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Rethinking employability: New managerial competencies in a global labour market
No full textThe ongoing consequences of globalization include widespread industry rationalization and heightened competition at regional, national, and international levels. In fact, the business world is becoming more networked and glocal. Such changes do not impact only on how companies and organizations run their own businesses. They also shape the way business schools grant their graduates a long-lasting employability.
The paper reports the results of a vast research project on employability conducted by a major Italian business school in 2010-2014. The study involved more than 200 top managers and results were obtained via grounded approach. Surprisingly, the traditional hard skills-related subjects (accounting, marketing, finance) were considered as must-haves (prerequisites), whereas employability (meant as desired employees’ game changers) resulted to be increasingly associated with behavioral, cross-cultural and social soft skills
The role of research networks in highly regulated R&D contexts: network effects in clinical research
No full textExternal Institutional Pressures
No full textInstitutional constraints and the web of social relations influence key organizational dimensions and hinder their decisional capacities, even determining a moving away from any pre-established rational goal. This chapter focuses on the relationship between institutions organization within the external environment. It begins by defining the external institutional environment, the dimension of the organizational field and by describing legitimation mechanisms and isomorphic processes. It then moves towards the presentation of the Institutional-Based View, first introducing market problems and market ordering mechanisms
Innovative Business Models in the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Case on Exploiting Value Networks to Stay Competitive
No full textThe search to find a more efficient and effective way of managing processes, while maintaining the integrity of research and manufacturing activities, has led pharmaceutical firms, and other actors of the renewed pharmaceutical supply chain, to modify their own business models. This article aims to emphasize this dimension, highlighting, via the observation of a network of firms operating at different stages of the pharmaceutical supply chain, how business models have succeeded in complementing each other and in originating a value creation network
May parents inherit from heirs? Towards an understanding of the parent-spun-off relationship
No full textSpin-offs create financially and administratively stand-alone units that hold a strong affiliation with the parent firm due to the concurrence of the ownership structure. So far, few studies have adopted a process perspective to investigate on the value creation of spin off transactions. We argue that spin-off generation does not constitute firm failures, as parents have clear channels to appropriate values of network structure from their spun-off units. We use a network perspective on inter-ï¬ rm collaboration to observe parent-spun-off unit relationship and develop research propositions to shed new light on the mechanisms that drive the post spin-off events
The organizational side of outsourcing
No full textAlthough outsourcing is broadly recognized as a relevant and multi-faceted strategic choice, its actual outcomes are still debated. Often the valuation of such choices is limited to the old-fashioned make or by scheme. The frequency and the scope of outsourcing and offshoring have increased constantly during the last 20 years, along with their popularity, which has coincided with other ‘management fashions’ (Abrahamson & Fairchild, 1999) and similar ‘bandwagons’ (Staw & Epstein, 2000), like business process re-engineering, strategic focalization, creation of shared services, and corporate downsizing (De Fontenay & Gans, 2008; Gospel & Sako, 2010; Angeli & Grimaldi, 2010).
Despite the strategic and financial outcomes of outsourcing have been well documented (e.g. Marchegiani et al., 2012; Giustiniano et al., 2014) both the managerial practice and the extant literature still lack a set of consolidated managerial techniques capable of tackling some of the organizational issues related to outsourcing. Notwithstanding their variety, such issues can be grouped into two main categories: 1) the paradoxes of outsourcing, 2) management of the ‘liminal’ effects generated
Istituzioni, Mercati e Imprese. Il ruolo delle istituzioni nelle strategie di crescita
No full textIntroduzione: il ruolo delle istituzioni. Il settore finanziario, institutional safety e crescita economica. Institution-based view e network theory. Ecosistemi, istituzioni e nuovi business model. Il ruolo delle istituzioni sul dinamismo imprenditoriale. Il ruolo delle istituzioni nella teoria organizzativa. Il ruolo delle istituzioni rispetto alle strategie di impresa. Un'analisi empirica: l'influenza del quadro istituzionale sulla perfomance in ambito cooperativo. L'institution based view per l'analisi delle strategie di impresa. Il rapporto tra stakeholder, impresa e istituzioni: corporate governance e CSR
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